Market Bosworth is a small market community and also civil parish in western Leicestershire, England. At the 2001 Census, it had a population of 1,906, enhancing to 2,097 at the 2011 census. In 1974, Market Bosworth Rural District combined with Hinckley Rural District to develop the district of Hinckley and Bosworth. Structure work at the old Livestock Market and various other sites has actually disclosed evidence of settlement on the hill given that the Bronze Age. Remains of a Roman rental property have actually been found on the east side of Barton Road. Bosworth as an Anglo-Saxon village days from the 8th century. Prior To the Norman Conquest of 1066, there were 2 manors at Bosworth one belonging to an Anglo-Saxon knight named Fernot, and also 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 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 passed by marriage dowry to the English branch of the French House of Harcourt. King Edward I gave a royal charter to Sir William Harcourt enabling a market to be held every Wednesday. The village took the name Market Bosworth from 12 May 1285, as well as on now ended up being a "community" by typical interpretation. The two oldest buildings in Bosworth, St. Peter's Church and the Red Lion bar, were constructed during the 14th century. The Battle of Bosworth happened 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 also your house of York, which led to the death 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 town on its way to Leicester Cathedral for his reburial. This event is currently memorialized with a flooring plaque in front of the war memorial in the town square.