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Market Rasen is a community and civil parish within the West Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England. The River Rase runs through it east to west, about 13 miles (21 km) north-east from Lincoln, 18 miles (29 km) east from Gainsborough and 16 miles (26 kilometres) south-west from Grimsby. The community is understood 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 little market community on the edge of the Lincolnshire Wolds. The town rests on the main road in between Lincoln and also 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 confirmed in the Domesday Book of 1086, where it looks like Rase, Rasa and Resne. The name derives from the Old English ræsn definition ‘slab’, as well as is thought to describe 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 community centre has a homogeneous 19th-century redbrick appearance of primarily Georgian and also Victorian design, centred on a market area with a middle ages church, restored in the 19th century. The River Rase flows via the community and also is crossed by Jameson Bridge, Caistor Road Bridge as well as Crane Bridge. Market days are Tuesdays, Fridays as well as Saturdays. On each Tuesday there is a public auction of items and also create, as well as on the first Tuesday of on a monthly basis, a farmers’ market. Every Friday the Women’s Institute holds a nation market. Market Rasen’s community fire and also police station opened up December 2005. It is among the first purpose-built combined fire and also police headquarters in the UK. In 2011 it was one of the communities chosen for the Portas Testimonial of small-town selling organisation.