Roslin (previously meant Rosslyn or Roslyn) is a town in Midlothian, Scotland, 7 miles (11 km) to the south of the capital city Edinburgh. It stands on high ground, near the northwest financial institution 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 constructed, under the overview 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 provided it the standing of a burgh. Coal mining has been a significant occupation from the twelfth to the late twentieth centuries. From the 19th century forward, the attractions of the Glen, Castle as well as Church created Roslin as a preferred vacationer destination. Remarkable site visitors consisted of J. M. W. Turner, William Wordsworth (that created a rhyme in the church whilst leaving a storm) and also his sibling Dorothy, that created "'I never went through an extra scrumptious dell than the glen of Rosslyn". William Morris visited 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 structure and a manufactory or two." On the north-western side of the town used to be Roslin Institute, an organic research facility, where in 1996 Dolly the lamb ended up being the first pet to be cloned from a grown-up somatic cell. It moved to Easter Bush in 2011.