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 east to west, roughly 13 miles (21 km) 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 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 small market town on the edge of the Lincolnshire Wolds. The town pushes the highway between Lincoln as well as Grimsby, the A46 and gets 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 looks like Rase, Rasa and also Resne. The name stems from the Old English ræsn definition 'plank', and is believed to refer to a plank bridge. The river name 'Rase' is a back-formation. Initially "Rasen", as it is known locally, was called "East Rasen", "Rasen Parva" or "Little Rasen". The community centre has an uniform 19th-century redbrick look of mainly Georgian and also Victorian design, centred on a market location with a middle ages church, restored in the 19th century. The River Rase moves via the community and also is crossed by Jameson Bridge, Caistor Road Bridge as well as Crane Bridge. Market days are Tuesdays, Fridays and also Saturdays. On each Tuesday there is an auction of products as well as create, and on the very first Tuesday of each month, a farmers' market. Every Friday the Women's Institute holds a nation market. Market Rasen's neighborhood fire and also police station opened up December 2005. It is just one of the initial purpose-built combined fire and also police headquarters in the UK. In 2011 it was just one of the communities selected for the Portas Evaluation of small-town selling business.