Market Rasen is a community as well as civil parish within the West Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England. The River Rase goes through it east to west, about 13 miles (21 kilometres) north-east from Lincoln, 18 miles (29 kilometres) eastern from Gainsborough and 16 miles (26 kilometres) south-west from Grimsby. The community is known for Market Rasen Racecourse and also 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 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 confirmed in the Domesday Book of 1086, where it appears as Rase, Rasa as well as Resne. The name originates from the Old English ræsn significance 'plank', and is believed to refer to a plank bridge. The river name 'Rase' is a back-formation. Originally "Rasen", as it is recognized in your area, was called "East Rasen", "Rasen Parva" or "Little Rasen". The town centre has a homogeneous 19th-century redbrick appearance of mostly Georgian and also Victorian style, centred on a market place with a medieval church, recovered in the 19th century. The River Rase streams with the community and also 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 an auction of items as well as generate, as well as on the initial Tuesday of on a monthly basis, a farmers' market. Every Friday the Women's Institute holds a country market. Market Rasen's area fire and police station opened up December 2005. It is just one of the initial purpose-built consolidated fire as well as police stations in the UK. In 2011 it was among the communities picked for the Portas Testimonial of small-town selling service.