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 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) household. In 1456 King James II gave it the status of a burgh. Coal mining has been a major occupation from the twelfth to the late twentieth centuries. From the 19th century onward, the destinations of the Glen, Castle and Chapel established Roslin as a preferred traveler destination. Significant site visitors consisted of J. M. W. Turner, William Wordsworth (who created a poem in the chapel whilst getting away a storm) as well as his sister Dorothy, who composed "'I never passed through a more tasty dell than the glen of Rosslyn". William Morris saw in March 1887, noting in his Socialist Diary that Roslin was "a lovely glen-ny landscape much spoiled, by the misery of Scotch building and also a manufactory or more." On the north-western side of the town made use of to be Roslin Institute, an organic study establishment, where in 1996 Dolly the sheep came to be the initial animal to be duplicated from a grown-up somatic cell. It relocated to Easter Bush in 2011.
