- Middle Rasen
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Coordinates: 53°23′14″N 0°21′45″W / 53.38712900°N 0.36250583°W
Middle Rasen 
St Peters, Middle Rasen
Middle Rasen
Middle Rasen shown within LincolnshirePopulation 1,319 (2001) OS grid reference TF089890 District West Lindsey Shire county Lincolnshire Region East Midlands Country England Sovereign state United Kingdom Post town Market Rasen Postcode district LN8 Police Lincolnshire Fire Lincolnshire Ambulance East Midlands EU Parliament East Midlands UK Parliament Gainsborough List of places: UK • England • Lincolnshire Middle Rasen is a village and civil parish in the West Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England, located about 1.5 miles (2.4 km) west of the town of Market Rasen. Today the village consists of two villages which have merged to become one; they were called Middle Rasen Drax and Middle Rasen Tupholme.[1][2]
Rasen is mentioned in Domesday Book of 1086, but West Rasen, Middle Rasen and Market Rasen are indistinguishable. In its entirety the list includes ten separate references to Rasen, which as a whole consists of 144 households.[3]
Middle Rasen has had at least two churches. That dedicated to Saint Paul which was demolished in 1860, and some of its fabric was used in the restoration of the church of Saint Peter. The old St Pauls church comprised a nave chancel South aisle and western tower in 1846, with probable demolished north aisle and north chapel.[4] St Peters church dates from the 12th century with later alterations and additions and is a grade II* listed building with an 1861 restoration by Bellamy and Hardy.[5]
Middle Rasen Mill
A tower windmill was built in 1827 for the grinding of cereal, and which stopped working in 1925,and is now used as a store.[6] There was also a grade II listed three storey red brick watermill dating from the 18th century which was remodelled in 1827.[7][8]
Middle Rasen Primary School was built in 1875 to replace a charity school founded by the will of John Wilkinson who died in 1720.[9]
References
- ^ "Middle Rasen". Pastscape. English Heritage. http://www.pastscape.org.uk/hob.aspx?hob_id=892385&sort=4&search=all&criteria=Middle%20Rasen&rational=q&recordsperpage=10. Retrieved 13 July 2011.
- ^ "Middle Rasen". Vision of Britain. University of Portsmouth. http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/place_page.jsp?p_id=13473&st=MIDDLE%20RASEN. Retrieved 13 July 2011.
- ^ "Middle Rasen (and Market Rasen and West Rasen)". Domesday Map. Anna Powell-Smith/University of Hull. http://www.domesdaymap.co.uk/place/TF1089/market-middle-and-west-rasen/. Retrieved 13 July 2011.
- ^ "St Paul, Middle Rasen". Pastscape. English Heritage. http://www.pastscape.org.uk/hob.aspx?hob_id=349736&sort=4&search=all&criteria=Middle%20Rasen&rational=q&recordsperpage=30. Retrieved 13 July 2011.
- ^ "St Peters, Middle Rasen". National Heritage List for England. English Heritage. http://list.english-heritage.org.uk/resultsingle.aspx?uid=1166238. Retrieved 13 July 2011.
- ^ "Middle Rasen Windmill". Pastscape. English Heritage. http://www.pastscape.org.uk/hob.aspx?hob_id=498317&sort=4&search=all&criteria=Middle%20Rasen&rational=q&recordsperpage=30. Retrieved 13 July 2011.
- ^ "Middle Rasen Watermill". Pastscape. English Heritage. http://www.pastscape.org.uk/hob.aspx?hob_id=892383&sort=4&search=all&criteria=Middle%20Rasen&rational=q&recordsperpage=30. Retrieved 13 July 2011.
- ^ "Middle Rasen Watermill". National Heritage List for England. English Heritage. http://list.english-heritage.org.uk/resultsingle.aspx?uid=1064040. Retrieved 13 July 2011.
- ^ "Middle Rasen Primary School". Lincs to the Past. Lincolnshire Archives. http://www.lincstothepast.com/MIDDLE-RASEN-PRIMARY-SCHOOL/886735.record?pt=S. Retrieved 13 July 2011.
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- Villages in Lincolnshire
- Civil parishes in Lincolnshire
- West Lindsey
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