Market Bosworth
Market Bosworth is a tiny market town and also civil parish in western Leicestershire, England. At the 2001 Census, it had a population of 1,906, enhancing to 2,097 at the 2011 census. In 1974, Market Bosworth Rural District merged with Hinckley Rural District to create the area of Hinckley as well as Bosworth. Building operate at the old Livestock Market and also other sites has disclosed evidence of settlement on the hill since the Bronze Age. Remains of a Roman rental property have actually been found 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 belonging to an Anglo-Saxon knight named Fernot, and some sokemen. Following the Norman conquest, as recorded in the Domesday Book of 1086, both the Anglo-Saxon manors and the town became part of the lands awarded by William the Conqueror to the Matter of Meulan from Normandy, Robert de Beaumont, 1st Earl of Leicester. Ultimately, the town gone by marital relationship dowry to the English branch of the French House of Harcourt. King Edward I gave a royal charter to Sir William Harcourt enabling a market to be held every Wednesday. The town took the name Market Bosworth from 12 May 1285, and also on this particular day ended up being a "community" by typical meaning. The two earliest structures in Bosworth, St. Peter's Church and the Red Lion club, were developed throughout the 14th century. The Battle of Bosworth happened to south of the community in 1485 as the final battle in the Wars of the Roses between your home of Lancaster as well as your house of York, which caused the death 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 passed through the community on its way to Leicester Cathedral for his reburial. This occasion is currently memorialized with a floor plaque in front of the war memorial in the community square.
