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Extract from the Roslin Travel Guides:
The tranquil village of
ROSLIN
lies seven miles south of the centre of Edinburgh, from where it can be reached by bus #87a or by regular Eastern Scottish services from St Andrew Square. The village has two unusual claims to fame: it was near here, at the Roslin Institute, that the world's first cloned sheep, Dolly, was created in 1997; and it also boasts the mysterious, richly decorated late-Gothic
Rosslyn Chapel
(Mon-Sat 10am-5pm, Sun noon-4.45pm; 4). Only the choir, Lady Chapel and part of the transepts were built of what was intended to be a huge collegiate church dedicated to St Matthew: construction halted soon... read the whole Roslin Travel Guides...
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