Market Bosworth is a small market community and civil parish in western Leicestershire, England. At the 2001 Census, it had a population of 1,906, raising to 2,097 at the 2011 census. In 1974, Market Bosworth Rural District combined with Hinckley Rural District to develop the district of Hinckley and Bosworth. Building operate at the old Livestock Market as well as various other sites has revealed proof of settlement on capital considering that the Bronze Age. Remains of a Roman villa have been located 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 coming from an Anglo-Saxon knight named Fernot, and also some sokemen. Adhering to the Norman conquest, as taped in the Domesday Book of 1086, both the Anglo-Saxon manors and also 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. Subsequently, the village passed by marriage dowry to the English branch of the French House of Harcourt. King Edward I offered a royal 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 day became a "town" by usual meaning. Both oldest structures in Bosworth, St. Peter's Church and also the Red Lion pub, were developed during the 14th century. The Battle of Bosworth happened to south of the town in 1485 as the final battle in the Wars of the Roses in between your house of Lancaster as well as the House of York, which resulted in 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 event is now commemorated with a floor plaque in front of the war memorial in the town square.