Market Bosworth is a tiny market town and also 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 District to form the district of Hinckley and Bosworth. Structure work at the old Livestock Market and various other sites has revealed evidence of settlement on the hill because the Bronze Age. Remains of a Roman suite have been found on the east side of Barton Road. Bosworth as an Anglo-Saxon town 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. Complying with the Norman conquest, as videotaped in the Domesday Book of 1086, both the Anglo-Saxon manors and also 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 town gone by marital relationship 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 village took the name Market Bosworth from 12 May 1285, and also on today ended up being a "community" by usual interpretation. Both earliest structures in Bosworth, St. Peter's Church and the Red Lion bar, were built during the 14th century. The Battle of Bosworth occurred to south of the town in 1485 as the end of the world in the Wars of the Roses in between your house of Lancaster and your home of York, which led to the fatality of King Richard III. Following the exploration 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 occasion is currently memorialized with a flooring plaque before the war memorial in the community square.