Market Rasen

Market Rasen is a town and civil parish inside the West Lindsey region of Lincolnshire, England. The River Rase goes through it east to west, roughly 13 miles north-east from Lincoln, 18 miles east from Gainsborough and 16 miles south-west from Grimsby. The town is known for Market Rasen Racecourse and being near the epicenter of a 2008 seismic tremor. The number of inhabitants in the common area at the 2011 statistics was 3,904. Market Rasen is a little market town on the edge of the Lincolnshire Wolds.

The town lies on the principle street among Lincoln and Grimsby, the A46 and is on National Cycle Route 1 of the National Cycle Network. In 2001 the town had a populace of 3,200. The place-name 'Market Rasen' is first bore witness to in the Domesday Book of 1086, where it shows up as Rase, Rasa and Resne. The name gets from the Old English raesn signifying 'board', and is thought to allude to a board connect. The stream name 'Rase' is a back-formation.Originally "Rasen", as it is known privately, was designated "East Rasen", "Rasen Parva" or "Little Rasen".