Market Rasen
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Market Rasen (Template:IPAc-en Template:Respell) is a market town and civil parish within the West Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England. The River Rase runs through it east to west, approximately Template:Convert north-east from Lincoln, Template:Convert east from Gainsborough, Template:Convert west of Louth, and Template:Convert south-west from Grimsby. It lies on the main road between Lincoln and Grimsby, the A46, and is famous for its racecourse. In 2001, the town had a population of 3,200.<ref name=ukstats>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> In the 2011 census, the population of the civil parish was 3,904.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
HistoryEdit
The place-name 'Market Rasen' is first attested in the Domesday Book of 1086, where it appears as Rase, Rasa, and Resne. The name derives from the Old English ræsn meaning 'plank', and is thought to refer to a plank bridge. The river name 'Rase' is a back-formation.<ref>Eilert Ekwall, The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Place-names, p.381.</ref>
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.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
The Corn Exchange was designed by Henry Goddard and completed in 1854.<ref>Template:NHLE</ref>
Market Rasen's community fire and police station opened in December 2005.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Market Rasen is served by a railway station which opened in 1848. <ref> {{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
GeographyEdit
The River Rase flows through the town and crosses Waterloo Street at Crane Bridge.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
In 2011, it was one of the towns chosen for the Portas Review of small-town retailing businesses.<ref>Portas Pilots Template:Webarchive</ref>
EducationEdit
Market Rasen's secondary school is De Aston School, a co-educational 11–18 former comprehensive school now an academy member with approximately 1,300 pupils, including day pupils and formerly boarders.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> It was founded in 1863 as a small grammar 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.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
The main primary school is the Market Rasen Church of England Primary School.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
February 2008 earthquakeEdit
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On 27 February 2008, a significant earthquake had its epicentre approximately Template:Convert north-west of Market Rasen, near the neighbouring parish of Middle Rasen. The earthquake, which according to the British Geological Survey measured 5.2 on the Richter Scale, struck at a depth of Template:Convert<ref name=BGS-08-02-29> Seismic Alert: Market Rasen Template:Webarchive, British Geological Survey, 27 February 2008</ref> and was felt across much of the UK from Edinburgh to Plymouth, and as far away as Bangor in Northern Ireland and Haarlem in the Netherlands.<ref name=felt> Template:Cite news</ref> The 10-second quake was the largest recorded example in the United Kingdom since the 1984 Llŷn Peninsula earthquake struck North Wales, measuring 5.4.<ref name=felt/><ref name=bbcmre> Template:Cite news </ref> 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.<ref name=felt/>
Local mediaEdit
Local news and television programmes are provided by BBC Yorkshire and Lincolnshire and ITV Yorkshire. Television signals are received from the nearby Belmont TV transmitter. <ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
The town newspaper is the weekly Market Rasen Mail, which was founded in 1856.<ref>Market Rasen Mail (2011), ‘Mail delivered centenary news’, 4 May, page 4.</ref>
Local radio stations are BBC 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.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
PeopleEdit
- The evangelist Ann Carr was born here in 1783
- Bernie Taupin, lyricist and long-term collaborator with Elton John spent his teenage years here
- Philip Oakes<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> journalist, author and poet died here in 2005
- Jim Broadbent, actor grew up in nearby Holton cum Beckering
- Rod Temperton, hit songwriter for Michael Jackson was at school here
- Philippa Lowthorpe, television director was at school here
- Gordon White, co-founder of Hanson plc grew up here
- Simon Marsden, photographer & baronet lived in the Lincolnshire Wolds nearby
- Roger Scruton, philosopher born in nearby Buslingthorpe
- Harriet Bibby, actress best known for appearing in Coronation Street was born here
See alsoEdit
- Market Rasen railway station
- Great Grimsby and Sheffield Junction Railway
- Market Rasen Racecourse
- Holy Rood Church, Market Rasen
ReferencesEdit
External linksEdit
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