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, approximately 13 miles (21 kilometres) north-east from Lincoln, 18 miles (29 kilometres) eastern from Gainsborough as well as 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 little market community on the edge of the Lincolnshire Wolds. The community pushes the highway in 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 looks like Rase, Rasa and Resne. The name stems from the Old English ræsn definition 'slab', and is thought 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 look of mainly Georgian as well as Victorian style, centred on a market location with a middle ages church, recovered in the 19th century. The River Rase streams via the community and also is crossed by Jameson Bridge, Caistor Road Bridge and Crane Bridge. Market days are Tuesdays, Fridays and also Saturdays. On each Tuesday there is a public auction of goods and create, and also on the initial Tuesday of every month, a farmers' market. Every Friday the Women's Institute holds a country market. Market Rasen's neighborhood fire as well as police station opened up December 2005. It is just one of the first purpose-built consolidated fire and also police headquarters in the UK. In 2011 it was among the towns picked for the Portas Evaluation of sectarian selling business.
