Market Rasen is a town as well as civil parish within the West Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England. The River Rase runs through it eastern to west, approximately 13 miles (21 km) north-east from Lincoln, 18 miles (29 km) east from Gainsborough and 16 miles (26 kilometres) south-west from Grimsby. The town is understood for Market Rasen Racecourse as well as 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 little market community on the edge of the Lincolnshire Wolds. The community lies on the main road in between Lincoln and also Grimsby, the A46 and gets on National Cycle Route 1 (part of EuroVelo 12) of the National Cycle Network. The place-name 'Market Rasen' is first proved in the Domesday Book of 1086, where it appears as Rase, Rasa as well as Resne. The name derives 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. Initially "Rasen", as it is understood in your area, was called "East Rasen", "Rasen Parva" or "Little Rasen". The community centre has a homogeneous 19th-century redbrick look of generally Georgian and Victorian architecture, centred on a market place with a medieval church, recovered in the 19th century. The River Rase streams with the community as well as is crossed by Jameson Bridge, Caistor Road Bridge as well as Crane Bridge. Market days are Tuesdays, Fridays as well as Saturdays. On each Tuesday there is an auction of goods and generate, and 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 up December 2005. It is one of the first purpose-built mixed fire as well as police stations in the UK. In 2011 it was one of the towns chosen for the Portas Testimonial of sectarian selling organisation.