Roslin (formerly meant Rosslyn or Roslyn) is a town in Midlothian, Scotland, 7 miles (11 kilometres) to the south of the funding city Edinburgh. It depends on high ground, near the northwest bank of the river North Esk. Legend has it the village was founded in 203 A.D. by Asterius, a Pict. In 1303 Roslin was the site of a battle of the First Battle of Scottish Independence. In 1446, Rosslyn Church was constructed, under the guide of William Sinclair, 1st Earl of Caithness. Roslin became crucial as the seat of the St Clair (or Sinclair) household. In 1456 King James II granted it the condition of a burgh. Coal mining has actually been a major line of work from the twelfth to the late twentieth centuries. From the 19th century forward, the attractions of the Glen, Castle as well as Chapel developed Roslin as a popular vacationer destination. Remarkable site visitors included J. M. W. Turner, William Wordsworth (that composed a rhyme in the church whilst escaping a tornado) and his sibling Dorothy, who wrote "'I never ever went through a more scrumptious dell than the glen of Rosslyn". William Morris visited in March 1887, keeping in mind in his Socialist Diary that Roslin was "a stunning glen-ny landscape much ruined, by the suffering of Scotch structure as well as a factory or 2." On the north-western side of the village made use of to be Roslin Institute, a biological research study establishment, where in 1996 Dolly the lamb became the very first pet to be cloned from an adult somatic cell. It transferred to Easter Bush in 2011.