Market Rasen
Market Rasen is a town as well as civil parish within the West Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England. The River Rase runs through it east to west, roughly 13 miles (21 kilometres) north-east from Lincoln, 18 miles (29 kilometres) east from Gainsborough and 16 miles (26 kilometres) south-west from Grimsby. The town 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 little market town on the edge of the Lincolnshire Wolds. The community pushes the main road between Lincoln and also Grimsby, the A46 as well as 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 and Resne. The name derives from the Old English ræsn significance 'plank', as well as is thought to describe a plank bridge. The river name 'Rase' is a back-formation. Originally "Rasen", as it is understood locally, was called "East Rasen", "Rasen Parva" or "Little Rasen". The community centre has an uniform 19th-century redbrick look of mostly Georgian as well as Victorian design, centred on a market area with a medieval church, restored in the 19th century. The River Rase moves with the town and is crossed by Jameson Bridge, Caistor Road Bridge as well as Crane Bridge. Market days are Tuesdays, Fridays and Saturdays. On each Tuesday there is a public auction of products as well as create, and on the initial 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 headquarters opened December 2005. It is just one of the initial purpose-built combined fire as well as police headquarters in the UK. In 2011 it was among the communities chosen for the Portas Testimonial of sectarian selling organisation.