Market Rasen
Market Rasen is a town as well as civil parish within the West Lindsey area 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) eastern 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 quake. The population of the civil parish at the 2011 census was 3,904. Market Rasen is a small market community on the edge of the Lincolnshire Wolds. The community pushes the main road between Lincoln and also Grimsby, the A46 as well as 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 also Resne. The name originates from the Old English ræsn significance 'slab', and is believed to describe a plank bridge. The river name 'Rase' is a back-formation. Initially "Rasen", as it is understood locally, was called "East Rasen", "Rasen Parva" or "Little Rasen". The community centre has an uniform 19th-century redbrick appearance of mainly Georgian and also Victorian design, centred on a market place with a middle ages church, restored in the 19th century. The River Rase streams through the community and is crossed by Jameson Bridge, Caistor Road Bridge and also Crane Bridge. Market days are Tuesdays, Fridays and also Saturdays. On each Tuesday there is a public auction of items and generate, as well as on the very first Tuesday of on a monthly basis, a farmers' market. Every Friday the Women's Institute holds a country market. Market Rasen's community fire as well as police headquarters opened December 2005. It is among the first purpose-built combined fire and also police stations in the UK. In 2011 it was among the communities selected for the Portas Review of small-town selling organisation.