Roslin (formerly spelt Rosslyn or Roslyn) is a village in Midlothian, Scotland, 7 miles (11 kilometres) to the south of the funding city Edinburgh. It stands on high ground, near the northwest financial institution of the river North Esk. Legend has it the town 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 built, under the guide of William Sinclair, 1st Earl of Caithness. Roslin ended up being vital as the seat of the St Clair (or Sinclair) family members. In 1456 King James II approved it the status of a burgh. Coal mining has actually been a major profession from the twelfth to the late twentieth centuries. From the 19th century onward, the tourist attractions of the Glen, Castle and Chapel created Roslin as a prominent visitor location. Notable site visitors included J. M. W. Turner, William Wordsworth (that composed a rhyme in the church whilst leaving a tornado) and his sis Dorothy, who composed "'I never ever went through a much more tasty dell than the glen of Rosslyn". William Morris saw in March 1887, keeping in mind in his Socialist Diary that Roslin was "an attractive glen-ny landscape much ruined, by the anguish of Scotch building as well as a manufactory or two." On the north-western side of the village used to be Roslin Institute, an organic research study facility, where in 1996 Dolly the sheep ended up being the initial animal to be cloned from a grown-up somatic cell. It moved to Easter Bush in 2011.