Market Rasen
Market Rasen is a community and also civil parish within the West Lindsey area of Lincolnshire, England. The River Rase runs through it eastern to west, approximately 13 miles (21 kilometres) north-east from Lincoln, 18 miles (29 km) eastern from Gainsborough and 16 miles (26 kilometres) 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 little market town on the edge of the Lincolnshire Wolds. The community pushes the main road between Lincoln and Grimsby, the A46 and also 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 as well as Resne. The name originates from the Old English ræsn meaning '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 in your area, was called "East Rasen", "Rasen Parva" or "Little Rasen". The community centre has an uniform 19th-century redbrick appearance of mainly Georgian and Victorian design, centred on a market location with a middle ages church, restored in the 19th century. The River Rase flows via the town as well as 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 as well as create, as well as on the first Tuesday of every month, a farmers' market. Every Friday the Women's Institute holds a nation market. Market Rasen's neighborhood fire and police headquarters opened December 2005. It is among the initial purpose-built consolidated fire and also police headquarters in the UK. In 2011 it was just one of the towns picked for the Portas Review of small-town selling organisation.
