Market Bosworth
Market Bosworth is a small market town as well as 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 and also Bosworth. Structure work at the old Cattle Market and also other sites has revealed evidence of settlement on the hill given that the Bronze Age. Remains of a Roman vacation home have been discovered on the east side of Barton Road. Bosworth as an Anglo-Saxon village dates from the 8th century. Before the Norman Conquest of 1066, there were 2 manors at Bosworth one belonging to an Anglo-Saxon knight named Fernot, and some sokemen. Complying with the Norman occupation, as tape-recorded in the Domesday Book of 1086, both the Anglo-Saxon manors as well as the village 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 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, as well as on this day ended up being a "community" by usual definition. 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 took place to south of the town in 1485 as the final battle in the Wars of the Roses in between the House of Lancaster and also your home of York, which resulted in the fatality of King Richard III. Complying with the exploration 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 currently commemorated with a flooring plaque in front of the war memorial in the town square.
