Market Rasen
Market Rasen is a community and civil parish within the West Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England. The River Rase runs through it eastern to west, roughly 13 miles (21 km) north-east from Lincoln, 18 miles (29 km) east from Gainsborough as well as 16 miles (26 km) south-west from Grimsby. The town is known for Market Rasen Racecourse and 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 little market town on the edge of the Lincolnshire Wolds. The community pushes the highway between Lincoln and Grimsby, the A46 as well as 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 and also Resne. The name derives from the Old English ræsn definition 'slab', and is thought to describe a plank bridge. The river name 'Rase' is a back-formation. Originally "Rasen", as it is known in your area, was called "East Rasen", "Rasen Parva" or "Little Rasen". The town centre has an uniform 19th-century redbrick appearance of mainly Georgian as well as Victorian design, centred on a market place with a medieval church, recovered in the 19th century. The River Rase flows through the town and also is crossed by Jameson Bridge, Caistor Road Bridge and also Crane Bridge. Market days are Tuesdays, Fridays and Saturdays. On each Tuesday there is an auction of products and also produce, and also on the first Tuesday of on a monthly basis, a farmers' market. Every Friday the Women's Institute holds a country market. Market Rasen's neighborhood fire and police station opened up December 2005. It is among the very first purpose-built consolidated fire and also police stations in the UK. In 2011 it was just one of the communities chosen for the Portas Testimonial of sectarian retailing service.