Roslin
Roslin (formerly spelt Rosslyn or Roslyn) is a village in Midlothian, Scotland, 7 miles (11 km) to the south of the capital city Edinburgh. It stands on high ground, near the northwest bank of the river North Esk. Tale 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 War of Scottish Independence. In 1446, Rosslyn Chapel was constructed, under the guide of William Sinclair, 1st Earl of Caithness. Roslin ended up being important as the seat of the St Clair (or Sinclair) household. In 1456 King James II gave it the standing of a burgh. Coal mining has been a major occupation from the twelfth to the late twentieth centuries. From the 19th century onward, the tourist attractions of the Glen, Castle and Church developed Roslin as a preferred traveler location. Notable site visitors included J. M. W. Turner, William Wordsworth (that created a poem in the church whilst running away a tornado) and also his sis Dorothy, who composed "'I never ever went through a much more delicious dell than the glen of Rosslyn". William Morris visited in March 1887, keeping in mind in his Socialist Diary that Roslin was "a lovely glen-ny landscape much ruined, by the suffering of Scotch building and a factory or 2." On the north-western side of the village made use of to be Roslin Institute, an organic research establishment, where in 1996 Dolly the lamb came to be the very first pet to be cloned from a grown-up somatic cell. It moved to Easter Bush in 2011.
