Market Bosworth
Market Bosworth is a small market community and also civil church 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 district of Hinckley as well as Bosworth. Building work at the old Cattle Market and also other sites has disclosed proof of negotiation on the hill because 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 belonging to 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 as well as the town belonged to the lands granted by William the Conqueror to the Count of Meulan from Normandy, Robert de Beaumont, 1st Earl of Leicester. Consequently, the village passed by marriage 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, and also on today ended up being a "town" by common meaning. The two oldest structures in Bosworth, St. Peter's Church and the Red Lion bar, were constructed during 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 and your house of York, which caused the fatality of King Richard III. Following the discovery of the remains of Richard III in Leicester during 2012, on Sunday 22 March 2015 the king's funeral cortège passed through the town on its way to Leicester Cathedral for his reburial. This event is now commemorated with a floor plaque before the war memorial in the town square.
