River Rase

River Rase
256px River Rase near Middle Rasen
Country	United Kingdom
Country within the UK	England
Counties	Lincolnshire
Town	Market Rasen
Villages	Tealby, Middle Rasen, West Rasen
Tributaries
- right	Brimmer Beck, The Dale
Source
- location	Churn Water Heads, Tealby, Lincolnshire
- elevation	118 m (387 ft)
- coordinates
Mouth
- location	River Ancholme near Snitterby, Lincolnshire
- elevation	4 m (13 ft)
- coordinates
Length	25 km (16 mi)
Basin	67 km2 (26 sq mi)
Discharge	for Bishopbridge
- average	0.48 m3/s (17 cu ft/s)
Wikimedia Commons: River Rase
Progression : Rase — Ancholme — Humber — North Sea

The River Rase is 16 mile (25km) long tributary of the River Ancholme that flows through Lincolnshire, in the east of England.

Course

The source of the river is a series of springs known as Churn Water Heads, that occur on Bully Hill north of Tealby in the Lincolnshire Wolds. These springs occur where the permeable chalk geology of the Wolds, meets impermeable mudstone and clays that underlie most of the Rase catchment.

The river flows in a south-westerly direction through the village of Tealby, where it is crossed by the Viking Way, a long-distance footpath that crosses the Wolds. To the west the Rase reaches the market town of Market Rasen, where it meets a tributary that flows through the local racecourse. The river continues through the villages of Middle Rasen and then West Rasen, where it is spanned by a packhorse bridge. At the hamlet of Bishopbridge the river changes character, becoming an artificial drainage channel that runs in parallel with the Ancholme. As it flows further north the river also loses its identity becoming the East Drain, when it is joined by the Kingerby Beck. The waters of the Rase and the Ancholme eventually join together near Harlam Hill, to the south of Snitterby Carr.

Source

Mouth

Market Rasen

Map showing locations along its course in Lincolnshire