Market Bosworth
Market Bosworth is a small 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 district of Hinckley and Bosworth. Structure work at the old Livestock Market as well as various other sites has disclosed proof of settlement on capital since the Bronze Age. Remains of a Roman suite have actually been found 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 two manors at Bosworth one coming from an Anglo-Saxon knight called Fernot, as well as some sokemen. Following the Norman conquest, as taped in the Domesday Book of 1086, both the Anglo-Saxon manors and 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. Consequently, the village gone by marital relationship dowry to the English branch of the French House of Harcourt. King Edward I offered 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 this day became a "town" by typical interpretation. Both earliest structures in Bosworth, St. Peter's Church and the Red Lion bar, were developed during the 14th century. The Battle of Bosworth took place to south of the community in 1485 as the end of the world in the Wars of the Roses in between your home of Lancaster and also your home of York, which led to the fatality 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 gone through the community on its way to Leicester Cathedral for his reburial. This occasion is currently celebrated with a flooring plaque before the war memorial in the community square.
