Roslin
Roslin (formerly led to Rosslyn or Roslyn) is a town 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. 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 Chapel was built, under the guide of William Sinclair, 1st Earl of Caithness. Roslin came to be important as the seat of the St Clair (or Sinclair) family. In 1456 King James II gave it the condition of a burgh. Coal mining has been a significant profession 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 popular traveler location. Notable visitors included J. M. W. Turner, William Wordsworth (who created a rhyme in the church whilst leaving a storm) and his sister Dorothy, that created "'I never ever travelled through an extra tasty dell than the glen of Rosslyn". William Morris saw in March 1887, keeping in mind in his Socialist Diary that Roslin was "a gorgeous glen-ny landscape much spoiled, by the suffering of Scotch building and also a manufactory or 2." On the north-western side of the town made use of to be Roslin Institute, an organic research establishment, where in 1996 Dolly the lamb became the initial animal to be duplicated from a grown-up somatic cell. It transferred to Easter Bush in 2011.
