Market Bosworth
Market Bosworth is a little market town as well as 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 combined with Hinckley Rural District to create the district of Hinckley and also Bosworth. Building work at the old Cattle Market as well as various other sites has actually disclosed evidence of negotiation on capital considering that 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 2 manors at Bosworth one belonging to an Anglo-Saxon knight named Fernot, and also some sokemen. Adhering to the Norman occupation, as tape-recorded in the Domesday Book of 1086, both the Anglo-Saxon manors and also the town became part of the lands granted by William the Conqueror to the Count 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, as well as on today came to be a "community" by typical definition. Both oldest structures in Bosworth, St. Peter's Church as well as the Red Lion club, were constructed throughout 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 the House of Lancaster and your house of York, which caused 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 travelled through the community 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.