Market Rasen
Market Rasen is a community and also civil parish within the West Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England. The River Rase goes through it east to west, about 13 miles (21 km) north-east from Lincoln, 18 miles (29 kilometres) east from Gainsborough and also 16 miles (26 km) south-west from Grimsby. The community 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 town on the edge of the Lincolnshire Wolds. The town lies on the main road in between Lincoln and also Grimsby, the A46 and is on National Cycle Route 1 (part of EuroVelo 12) of the National Cycle Network. The place-name 'Market Rasen' is first attested in the Domesday Book of 1086, where it appears as Rase, Rasa as well as Resne. The name originates from the Old English ræsn definition 'plank', and is thought to refer to a plank bridge. The river name 'Rase' is a back-formation. Initially "Rasen", as it is recognized locally, was called "East Rasen", "Rasen Parva" or "Little Rasen". The community centre has a homogeneous 19th-century redbrick look of mainly Georgian as well as Victorian design, centred on a market place with a medieval church, restored in the 19th century. The River Rase moves with the town and also is crossed by Jameson Bridge, Caistor Road Bridge and Crane Bridge. Market days are Tuesdays, Fridays and Saturdays. On each Tuesday there is an auction of goods and also create, and also 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 also police headquarters opened up December 2005. It is one of the very first purpose-built combined fire and also police headquarters in the UK. In 2011 it was one of the towns picked for the Portas Testimonial of small-town retailing organisation.