Roslin
Roslin (previously spelt Rosslyn or Roslyn) is a town in Midlothian, Scotland, 7 miles (11 kilometres) to the south of the resources city Edinburgh. It stands 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 constructed, under the overview of William Sinclair, 1st Earl of Caithness. Roslin came to be vital as the seat of the St Clair (or Sinclair) family members. In 1456 King James II granted it the condition of a burgh. Coal mining has been a major profession from the twelfth to the late twentieth centuries. From the 19th century onward, the attractions of the Glen, Castle as well as Chapel developed Roslin as a popular vacationer destination. Remarkable site visitors included J. M. W. Turner, William Wordsworth (who composed a poem in the chapel whilst getting away a storm) as well as his sister Dorothy, that wrote "'I never ever travelled through an extra tasty dell than the glen of Rosslyn". William Morris checked out in March 1887, keeping in mind in his Socialist Diary that Roslin was "a gorgeous glen-ny landscape much ruined, by the torment of Scotch building as well as a manufactory or 2." On the north-western side of the village used to be Roslin Institute, a biological study establishment, where in 1996 Dolly the sheep ended up being the initial pet to be cloned from an adult somatic cell. It moved to Easter Bush in 2011.
