Market Bosworth
Market Bosworth is a little market town and civil parish in western Leicestershire, England. At the 2001 Census, it had a population of 1,906, increasing to 2,097 at the 2011 census. In 1974, Market Bosworth Rural District combined with Hinckley Rural Area to develop the area of Hinckley as well as Bosworth. Building operate at the old Livestock Market and also other sites has actually exposed evidence of negotiation on the hill given that the Bronze Age. Remains of a Roman villa have been discovered on the east side of Barton Road. Bosworth as an Anglo-Saxon town days 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 some sokemen. Complying with the Norman conquest, as recorded in the Domesday Book of 1086, both the Anglo-Saxon manors and the town were part of the lands granted by William the Conqueror to the Count of Meulan from Normandy, Robert de Beaumont, 1st Earl of Leicester. Ultimately, the village gone by marriage dowry to the English branch of the French House of Harcourt. King Edward I provided an imperial charter to Sir William Harcourt allowing a market to be held every Wednesday. The town took the name Market Bosworth from 12 May 1285, and also on now ended up being a "community" by common interpretation. Both earliest structures in Bosworth, St. Peter's Church and the Red Lion bar, were built during the 14th century. The Battle of Bosworth occurred to south of the town in 1485 as the final battle in the Wars of the Roses in between your house of Lancaster and your home of York, which led to the death of King Richard III. Adhering to the exploration of the remains of Richard III in Leicester throughout 2012, on Sunday 22 March 2015 the king's funeral cortège travelled through the town on its way to Leicester Cathedral for his reburial. This occasion is now memorialized with a flooring plaque in front of the war memorial in the town square.
