Market Rasen
Market Rasen is a community and also civil parish within the West Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England. The River Rase runs through it east to west, around 13 miles (21 km) north-east from Lincoln, 18 miles (29 km) east from Gainsborough and 16 miles (26 km) south-west from Grimsby. The community is known for Market Rasen Racecourse and being close to the epicentre of a 2008 earthquake. The population of the civil parish at the 2011 census was 3,904. Market Rasen is a small market town on the edge of the Lincolnshire Wolds. The community pushes the highway in between Lincoln and also Grimsby, the A46 and is on National Cycle Route 1 (part of EuroVelo 12) of the National Cycle Network. The place-name 'Market Rasen' is first testified in the Domesday Book of 1086, where it appears as Rase, Rasa and Resne. The name stems from the Old English ræsn significance 'slab', and also is thought to refer to a plank bridge. The river name 'Rase' is a back-formation. Originally "Rasen", as it is recognized locally, was called "East Rasen", "Rasen Parva" or "Little Rasen". The community centre has a homogeneous 19th-century redbrick appearance of mostly Georgian and also Victorian architecture, centred on a market location with a medieval church, recovered in the 19th century. The River Rase moves through the town as well as is crossed by Jameson Bridge, Caistor Road Bridge and Crane Bridge. Market days are Tuesdays, Fridays and also Saturdays. On each Tuesday there is an auction of goods and generate, and also on the first Tuesday of monthly, a farmers' market. Every Friday the Women's Institute holds a nation market. Market Rasen's neighborhood fire as well as police station opened December 2005. It is among the initial purpose-built combined fire as well as police headquarters in the UK. In 2011 it was one of the towns selected for the Portas Review of small-town selling organisation.