Roslin
Roslin (formerly spelt Rosslyn or Roslyn) is a town in Midlothian, Scotland, 7 miles (11 km) to the south of the capital city Edinburgh. It depends 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 War of Scottish Independence. In 1446, Rosslyn Chapel was built, under the overview of William Sinclair, 1st Earl of Caithness. Roslin came to be essential as the seat of the St Clair (or Sinclair) family members. In 1456 King James II approved it the status 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 tourist attractions of the Glen, Castle as well as Church established Roslin as a popular tourist destination. Remarkable visitors included J. M. W. Turner, William Wordsworth (that created a poem in the church whilst escaping a tornado) as well as his sister Dorothy, that created "'I never travelled through an extra scrumptious dell than the glen of Rosslyn". William Morris visited in March 1887, noting in his Socialist Diary that Roslin was "a stunning glen-ny landscape much ruined, by the torment of Scotch building and a manufactory or more." On the north-western side of the village 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 an adult somatic cell. It moved to Easter Bush in 2011.
