| Market Rasen | |
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 Queen Street, 2009 | |
  Market Rasen Location withinLincolnshire | |
| Population | 3,904 (2011) |
| OS grid reference | TF108891 |
| • London | 130 mi (210 km) S |
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| Region | |
| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | MARKET RASEN |
| Postcode district | LN8 |
| Dialling code | 01673 |
| Police | Lincolnshire |
| Fire | Lincolnshire |
| Ambulance | East Midlands |
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Market Rasen (/ˈreɪzən/RAY-zən) is amarket town andcivil parish within theWest Lindsey district ofLincolnshire, England. TheRiver Rase runs through it east to west, approximately 13 miles (21 km) north-east fromLincoln, 18 miles (29 km) east fromGainsborough, 14 miles (23 km) west ofLouth, and 16 miles (26 km) south-west fromGrimsby. It lies on the main road betweenLincoln andGrimsby, theA46, and is famous for itsracecourse. In 2001, the town had a population of 3,200.[2] In the 2011 census, the population of the civil parish was 3,904.[3]
The place-name 'Market Rasen' is first attested in theDomesday Book of 1086, where it appears asRase,Rasa, andResne. The name derives from theOld Englishræsn meaning 'plank', and is thought to refer to a plank bridge. The river name 'Rase' is a back-formation.[4]
Originally "Rasen", as it is known locally, was called "East Rasen", "Rasen Parva" or "Little Rasen".
In the 19th century, touring theatrical companies performed in theatres in the town. David Grose opened 'a very neat and comfortable theatre' in 1834. In May 1844, the Giffords performed in the town.[5]
TheCorn Exchange was designed byHenry Goddard and completed in 1854.[6]
Market Rasen's community fire and police station opened in December 2005.[7]Market Rasen is served by arailway station which opened in 1848.[8]
Vickers Valiant 'WZ363' crashed on Wednesday 6 May 1964 at 11.41pm. It had flown fromRAF Marham, having taken off at 7pm. It crashed near the B1202, around 400 yards south of the railway station, on the southern edge of the town, close to the fire station. There was a square mile of debris. People had seen an aircraft engine on fire. At 12.30am, the street lights would have been switched off, and the Valiant could have landed on the town centre, instead. The sodium vapour streetlights were newly installed.[citation needed]
The roof of the town's Methodist chapel was alight, which took a half hour to extinguish. Showers of sparks landed on the Wold View Estate, built in 1953, on the south-west of the town, as the aircraft flew over at roof-top height. Arthur and Ruby Chantry, and Sidney Cottingham, lived near the crash site.[9][10]
Search parties went out to look, but it was raining too much.[11] Fire engines attended from Rasen and Wragby, with the Deputy Chief Fire Officer for Lindsey in attendance. There was a 25ft deep crater. Around 100 people from the town visited the scene that night, out of curiosity.[12]
The following day, an AmericanF-101, fromRAF Bentwaters in Suffolk, exploded over the Fort William area, atKinlochleven. Five days laterAvro Vulcan 'XH535' crashed atChute, Wiltshire, with four killed, but the two pilots had ejected in time.
The River Rase flows through the town and crosses Waterloo Street at Crane Bridge.[26]
In 2011, it was one of the towns chosen for thePortas Review of small-town retailing businesses.[27]
Market Rasen'ssecondary school isDe Aston School, a co-educational 11–18 formercomprehensive school now an academy member with approximately 1,300 pupils, including day pupils and formerly boarders.[28][29] It was founded in 1863 as a smallgrammar school as part of a legal settlement following a court case involving funds from the medieval charity of Thomas de Aston, a 13th-century monk.[30]
The main primary school is the Market RasenChurch of England Primary School.[31]
On 27 February 2008, a significant earthquake had itsepicentre approximately 2.5 miles (4.0 km) north-west of Market Rasen, near the neighbouring parish ofMiddle Rasen. The earthquake, which according to the British Geological Survey measured 5.2 on theRichter Scale, struck at a depth of 11.6 miles (18.7 km)[32] and was felt across much of theUK fromEdinburgh toPlymouth, and as far away asBangor inNorthern Ireland andHaarlem in theNetherlands.[33]The 10-second quake was the largest recorded example in theUnited Kingdom since the1984 Llŷn Peninsula earthquake struckNorth Wales, measuring 5.4.[33][34]There were no recorded local injuries and only one recorded injury elsewhere in the UK, in South Yorkshire, when a chimney was dislodged from a house roof, falling down through the house's roof and landing on the male resident, who was in bed at the time, causing a broken pelvis.[33]
Local news and television programmes are provided byBBC Yorkshire and Lincolnshire andITV Yorkshire. Television signals are received from the nearbyBelmont TV transmitter.[35]
The town newspaper is the weeklyMarket Rasen Mail, which was founded in 1856.[36]
Local radio stations areBBC Radio Lincolnshire on 94.9 FM,Greatest Hits Radio Lincolnshire on 102.2 FM,DAB radio station,Hits Radio Lincolnshire and County Linx Radio, a community online station.[37]
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