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Newmilns

Newmilns and Greenholm is a tiny burgh in East Ayrshire, Scotland. It has a population of 3,057 people (2001 census) and lies on the A71, around 7 miles east of Kilmarnock as well as twenty-five miles southwest of Glasgow. It is located in a valley whereby the River Irvine runs and also, with the neighbouring communities of Darvel as well as Galston, forms an area known as the Upper Irvine Valley (locally referred to as The Valley). As the name suggests, the burgh exists in 2 components - Newmilns to the north of the river and Greenholm to the south. The river likewise divides the churches of Loudoun and Galston, which is why the burgh, although normally described as Newmilns, has actually retained both names. Of the mills themselves, little bit now stays. The last in operation was Pate's Mill, which sat on Brown Street opposite the railway station (contemporary Vesuvius building). Renowned in Allan Ramsay's rhyme, "The Lass o Pate's Mill", it was knocked down in 1977 and all that currently stays becomes part of the mill's outside wall surface. The only mill building still intact can be discovered at the foot of Ladeside. Now used as real estate, Loudoun Mill (formerly the Meal Mill/ Corn Mill of Newmilns) was in use from 1593 till it quit producing dish in the 1960s. In 1970, the mill wheel was gotten rid of and also the lade filled out, with the only remaining idea of the site's former usage being an adage, "No Mill, No Meal - JA 1914" engraved on the external wall.