Market Bosworth
Market Bosworth is a small market community and 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 merged with Hinckley Rural District to create the area of Hinckley and Bosworth. Building work at the old Cattle Market and various other sites has actually disclosed proof of settlement on the hill since 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 dates from the 8th century. Before the Norman Conquest of 1066, there were 2 manors at Bosworth one coming from an Anglo-Saxon knight called Fernot, and some sokemen. Complying with the Norman conquest, as tape-recorded in the Domesday Book of 1086, both the Anglo-Saxon manors as well as 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. Subsequently, 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 permitting a market to be held every Wednesday. The town took the name Market Bosworth from 12 May 1285, and on now came to be a "community" by usual interpretation. The two oldest structures in Bosworth, St. Peter's Church as well as the Red Lion bar, were constructed throughout 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 between your home of Lancaster and your home 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 gone through the community on its way to Leicester Cathedral for his reburial. This occasion is now memorialized with a floor plaque in front of the war memorial in the community square.
