Market Rasen
Market Rasen is a community as well as civil parish within the West Lindsey area of Lincolnshire, England. The River Rase goes through it eastern to west, about 13 miles (21 kilometres) north-east from Lincoln, 18 miles (29 km) eastern from Gainsborough as well as 16 miles (26 km) 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 tiny market community on the edge of the Lincolnshire Wolds. The town pushes the highway in between Lincoln as well as Grimsby, the A46 as well as 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 appears as Rase, Rasa and also Resne. The name originates from the Old English ræsn significance 'slab', and also is believed to refer to a plank bridge. The river name 'Rase' is a back-formation. Initially "Rasen", as it is known in your area, was called "East Rasen", "Rasen Parva" or "Little Rasen". The town centre has a homogeneous 19th-century redbrick look of mainly Georgian and Victorian design, centred on a market place with a medieval church, brought back in the 19th century. The River Rase streams via the town and is crossed by Jameson Bridge, Caistor Road Bridge and Crane Bridge. Market days are Tuesdays, Fridays as well as Saturdays. On each Tuesday there is a public auction of goods and create, and on the first Tuesday of every month, a farmers' market. Every Friday the Women's Institute holds a nation market. Market Rasen's area fire as well as police headquarters opened December 2005. It is just one of the first purpose-built consolidated fire and also police headquarters in the UK. In 2011 it was among the towns selected for the Portas Testimonial of small-town retailing company.
