Market Bosworth is a tiny market community and also civil church in western Leicestershire, England. At the 2001 Census, it had a population of 1,906, boosting to 2,097 at the 2011 census. In 1974, Market Bosworth Rural District merged with Hinckley Rural District to develop the area of Hinckley and Bosworth. Building work at the old Cattle Market as well as other sites has actually disclosed proof of negotiation on the hill considering that the Bronze Age. Remains of a Roman villa 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 2 manors at Bosworth one belonging to an Anglo-Saxon knight named Fernot, as well as some sokemen. Following the Norman conquest, as recorded in the Domesday Book of 1086, both the Anglo-Saxon manors as well as the village were part of the lands awarded by William the Conqueror to the Matter of Meulan from Normandy, Robert de Beaumont, 1st Earl of Leicester. Consequently, the town passed by marital relationship dowry to the English branch of the French House of Harcourt. King Edward I gave 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 this particular day came to be a "community" by typical interpretation. The two earliest structures in Bosworth, St. Peter's Church and the Red Lion club, were constructed throughout the 14th century. The Battle of Bosworth took place to south of the town in 1485 as the end of the world in the Wars of the Roses between your home of Lancaster and your home of York, which caused the fatality of King Richard III. Adhering to the discovery of the remains of Richard III in Leicester during 2012, on Sunday 22 March 2015 the king's funeral cortège travelled through the community on its way to Leicester Cathedral for his reburial. This occasion is currently commemorated with a flooring plaque before the war memorial in the community square.