Market Bosworth
Market Bosworth is a small market town and civil church in western Leicestershire, England. At the 2001 Census, it had a population of 1,906, raising to 2,097 at the 2011 census. In 1974, Market Bosworth Rural District merged with Hinckley Rural Area to create the district of Hinckley and also Bosworth. Building operate at the old Cattle Market and other sites has actually revealed proof of settlement on capital since the Bronze Age. Remains of a Roman vacation home have been found 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 coming from an Anglo-Saxon knight named Fernot, and also some sokemen. Adhering to the Norman occupation, as recorded in the Domesday Book of 1086, both the Anglo-Saxon manors as well as the village belonged to 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 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 this day came to be a "town" by common interpretation. Both oldest structures in Bosworth, St. Peter's Church and also the Red Lion bar, were developed during 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 between your house of Lancaster and also the House of York, which led to 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 gone through the community on its way to Leicester Cathedral for his reburial. This occasion is now celebrated with a floor plaque in front of the war memorial in the community square.
