Market Bosworth
Market Bosworth is a small market community 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 District to create the area of Hinckley and Bosworth. Structure operate at the old Livestock Market and other sites has actually disclosed evidence of negotiation on the hill because the Bronze Age. Remains of a Roman villa have actually been located 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 two manors at Bosworth one coming from an Anglo-Saxon knight named Fernot, and also some sokemen. Complying with the Norman occupation, as videotaped 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. 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 enabling a market to be held every Wednesday. The town took the name Market Bosworth from 12 May 1285, as well as on this particular day ended up being a "community" by typical interpretation. Both oldest buildings in Bosworth, St. Peter's Church and also the Red Lion club, were built during the 14th century. The Battle of Bosworth took place to south of the community 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 caused the death of King Richard III. Following 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 now commemorated with a floor plaque in front of the war memorial in the community square.
