Market Bosworth is a small market community and also civil parish in western Leicestershire, England. At the 2001 Census, it had a population of 1,906, increasing to 2,097 at the 2011 census. In 1974, Market Bosworth Rural District combined with Hinckley Rural District to form the area of Hinckley as well as Bosworth. Building work at the old Cattle Market and various other sites has exposed proof of negotiation on capital considering that the Bronze Age. Remains of a Roman rental property have been discovered on the east side of Barton Road. Bosworth as an Anglo-Saxon village dates from the 8th century. Prior To the Norman Conquest of 1066, there were two manors at Bosworth one coming from an Anglo-Saxon knight named Fernot, as well as some sokemen. Following the Norman occupation, as videotaped in the Domesday Book of 1086, both the Anglo-Saxon manors as well as the town were part of the lands granted by William the Conqueror to the Count of Meulan from Normandy, Robert de Beaumont, 1st Earl of Leicester. Consequently, the town gone by marital relationship dowry to the English branch of the French House of Harcourt. King Edward I offered an imperial charter to Sir William Harcourt permitting a market to be held every Wednesday. The town took the name Market Bosworth from 12 May 1285, as well as on today ended up being a "community" by typical definition. The two oldest structures in Bosworth, St. Peter's Church as well as the Red Lion bar, were developed throughout the 14th century. The Battle of Bosworth happened to south of the town in 1485 as the end of the world in the Wars of the Roses in between your home of Lancaster as well as the House of York, which resulted in the fatality of King Richard III. Complying with the discovery of the remains of Richard III in Leicester throughout 2012, on Sunday 22 March 2015 the king's funeral cortège travelled through the town on its way to Leicester Cathedral for his reburial. This event is now memorialized with a floor plaque in front of the war memorial in the community square.