Roslin
Roslin (previously spelt Rosslyn or Roslyn) is a village in Midlothian, Scotland, 7 miles (11 km) to the south of the capital city Edinburgh. It bases on high ground, near the northwest bank of the river North Esk. Tale 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 Chapel was built, under the overview of William Sinclair, 1st Earl of Caithness. Roslin became essential as the seat of the St Clair (or Sinclair) family. In 1456 King James II gave it the standing 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 onward, the attractions of the Glen, Castle and Church established Roslin as a preferred visitor destination. Noteworthy site visitors consisted of J. M. W. Turner, William Wordsworth (that composed a poem in the chapel whilst getting away a tornado) and also his sibling Dorothy, who created "'I never ever travelled through an extra tasty dell than the glen of Rosslyn". William Morris went to in March 1887, noting in his Socialist Diary that Roslin was "a beautiful glen-ny landscape much ruined, by the anguish of Scotch structure and also a manufactory or two." On the north-western side of the village used to be Roslin Institute, a biological research facility, where in 1996 Dolly the lamb ended up being the very first animal to be cloned from an adult somatic cell. It relocated to Easter Bush in 2011.
