Roslin (previously led to Rosslyn or Roslyn) is a town in Midlothian, Scotland, 7 miles (11 kilometres) to the south of the funding city Edinburgh. It bases 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 Church was constructed, under the guide of William Sinclair, 1st Earl of Caithness. Roslin became vital 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 line of work from the twelfth to the late twentieth centuries. From the 19th century onward, the destinations of the Glen, Castle as well as Church established Roslin as a preferred tourist location. Notable visitors consisted of J. M. W. Turner, William Wordsworth (who composed a rhyme in the church whilst getting away a tornado) and also his sis Dorothy, that created "'I never ever went through a much more scrumptious dell than the glen of Rosslyn". William Morris saw in March 1887, noting in his Socialist Diary that Roslin was "a gorgeous glen-ny landscape much spoiled, by the suffering of Scotch building as well as a manufactory or 2." On the north-western side of the town made use of to be Roslin Institute, an organic research facility, where in 1996 Dolly the lamb came to be the first animal to be cloned from an adult somatic cell. It transferred to Easter Bush in 2011.