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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, roughly 13 miles (21 kilometres) 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 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 community pushes the main road between Lincoln and Grimsby, the A46 and also 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 originates from the Old English ræsn significance 'plank', and also is thought 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 town centre has a homogeneous 19th-century redbrick appearance of primarily Georgian and also Victorian design, centred on a market place with a middle ages church, recovered in the 19th century. The River Rase moves with the community and 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 goods and also create, and also on the initial Tuesday of monthly, a farmers' market. Every Friday the Women's Institute holds a nation market. Market Rasen's neighborhood fire and also police station opened December 2005. It is among the initial purpose-built combined fire and police stations in the UK. In 2011 it was just one of the towns selected for the Portas Review of sectarian selling organisation.