Market Bosworth is a little market community as well as civil parish in western Leicestershire, England. At the 2001 Census, it had a population of 1,906, boosting to 2,097 at the 2011 census. In 1974, Market Bosworth Rural District merged with Hinckley Rural District to form the district of Hinckley and also Bosworth. Building operate at the old Livestock Market and also various other sites has exposed proof of negotiation on the hill considering that the Bronze Age. Remains of a Roman rental property have actually been discovered 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 belonging to an Anglo-Saxon knight called Fernot, and some sokemen. Complying with the Norman occupation, as tape-recorded in the Domesday Book of 1086, both the Anglo-Saxon manors and also the village were 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 town passed by marriage dowry to the English branch of the French House of Harcourt. King Edward I provided an imperial charter to Sir William Harcourt permitting a market to be held every Wednesday. The town took the name Market Bosworth from 12 May 1285, as well as on now became a "community" by typical definition. The two oldest structures in Bosworth, St. Peter's Church and the Red Lion club, were constructed throughout the 14th century. The Battle of Bosworth took place to south of the community in 1485 as the end of the world in the Wars of the Roses in between the House of Lancaster as well as your house of York, which caused the fatality of King Richard III. Complying with the exploration of the remains of Richard III in Leicester during 2012, on Sunday 22 March 2015 the king's funeral cortège travelled through the town on its way to Leicester Cathedral for his reburial. This occasion is currently celebrated with a flooring plaque in front of the war memorial in the community square.