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Newmilns
Newmilns as well as Greenholm is a tiny burgh in East Ayrshire, Scotland. It has a population of 3,057 people (2001 census) as well as rests on the A71, around 7 miles east of Kilmarnock and also twenty-five miles southwest of Glasgow. It is positioned in a valley through which the River Irvine runs as well as, with the neighbouring towns of Darvel as well as Galston, creates an area known as the Upper Irvine Valley (locally referred to as The Valley). As the name recommends, the burgh exists in 2 parts - Newmilns to the north of the river and also Greenholm to the south. The river additionally divides the churches of Loudoun and Galston, which is why the burgh, although normally referred to as Newmilns, has kept both names. Of the mills themselves, little currently continues to be. The last in operation was Pate's Mill, which sat on Brown Street opposite the train station (contemporary Vesuvius structure). Famed in Allan Ramsay's rhyme, "The Lass o Pate's Mill", it was destroyed in 1977 and all that currently remains is part of the mill's outside wall. The only mill building still undamaged can be discovered at the foot of Ladeside. Now used as real estate, Loudoun Mill (previously the Meal Mill/ Corn Mill of Newmilns) was in use from 1593 till it stopped producing meal in the 1960s. In 1970, the mill wheel was removed and also the lade completed, with the only staying suggestion of the site's former use being a slogan, "No Mill, No Meal - JA 1914" engraved on the external wall.
