Market Rasen
Market Rasen is a town and also civil parish within the West Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England. The River Rase goes through it eastern to west, approximately 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 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 town on the edge of the Lincolnshire Wolds. The town rests on the main road in between Lincoln and also 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 attested in the Domesday Book of 1086, where it looks like Rase, Rasa and also Resne. The name derives from the Old English ræsn meaning 'slab', and is thought to describe a plank bridge. The river name 'Rase' is a back-formation. Initially "Rasen", as it is recognized locally, was called "East Rasen", "Rasen Parva" or "Little Rasen". The community centre has a homogeneous 19th-century redbrick look of mainly Georgian and also Victorian style, centred on a market location with a medieval church, brought back in the 19th century. The River Rase moves through the town and is crossed by Jameson Bridge, Caistor Road Bridge and Crane Bridge. Market days are Tuesdays, Fridays and Saturdays. On each Tuesday there is an auction of items and generate, as well as on the initial Tuesday of every month, a farmers' market. Every Friday the Women's Institute holds a country market. Market Rasen's community fire as well as police headquarters opened up December 2005. It is one of the very first purpose-built consolidated fire and also police headquarters in the UK. In 2011 it was just one of the towns picked for the Portas Review of sectarian selling organisation.