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Market Rasen is a community and civil parish within the West Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England. The River Rase goes through it east to west, around 13 miles (21 kilometres) north-east from Lincoln, 18 miles (29 km) east from Gainsborough as well as 16 miles (26 kilometres) south-west from Grimsby. The community is known 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 tiny market community on the edge of the Lincolnshire Wolds. The community lies on the highway between Lincoln as well as 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 proved in the Domesday Book of 1086, where it looks like Rase, Rasa and Resne. The name stems from the Old English ræsn meaning ‘slab’, and is thought to refer to 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 community centre has an uniform 19th-century redbrick appearance of mostly Georgian and also Victorian style, centred on a market area with a medieval church, recovered in the 19th century. The River Rase flows through the community 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 on the first Tuesday of every month, a farmers’ market. Every Friday the Women’s Institute holds a nation market. Market Rasen’s community fire and police station opened December 2005. It is one of the initial purpose-built combined fire as well as police stations in the UK. In 2011 it was among the towns selected for the Portas Testimonial of sectarian selling business.