Market Bosworth is a tiny market town 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 district of Hinckley and also Bosworth. Structure operate at the old Cattle Market and also other sites has actually revealed evidence of negotiation on capital given that the Bronze Age. Remains of a Roman rental property have been located on the east side of Barton Road. Bosworth as an Anglo-Saxon town 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. Following the Norman conquest, as taped in the Domesday Book of 1086, both the Anglo-Saxon manors and the village belonged to the lands awarded 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 gave a royal charter to Sir William Harcourt permitting a market to be held every Wednesday. The village took the name Market Bosworth from 12 May 1285, and on today became a "town" by common interpretation. The two earliest buildings in Bosworth, St. Peter's Church and also the Red Lion club, were constructed throughout the 14th century. The Battle of Bosworth occurred to south of the community in 1485 as the end of the world 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 travelled through the community on its way to Leicester Cathedral for his reburial. This occasion is currently honored with a flooring plaque before the war memorial in the community square.
