Market Rasen
Market Rasen is a town as well as civil parish within the West Lindsey area of Lincolnshire, England. The River Rase goes through it east to west, approximately 13 miles (21 km) north-east from Lincoln, 18 miles (29 km) east from Gainsborough and also 16 miles (26 km) south-west from Grimsby. The town is understood 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 community on the edge of the Lincolnshire Wolds. The community rests on the highway in between Lincoln and 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 attested in the Domesday Book of 1086, where it appears as Rase, Rasa as well as Resne. The name derives from the Old English ræsn significance 'plank', and is thought to refer to a plank bridge. The river name 'Rase' is a back-formation. Originally "Rasen", as it is known locally, was called "East Rasen", "Rasen Parva" or "Little Rasen". The community centre has a homogeneous 19th-century redbrick appearance of generally Georgian as well as Victorian design, centred on a market location with a middle ages church, recovered in the 19th century. The River Rase streams through the community 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 products and create, and also on the initial Tuesday of monthly, a farmers' market. Every Friday the Women's Institute holds a country 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 chosen for the Portas Testimonial of small-town retailing organisation.
