Market Bosworth is a small market community and also civil church 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 as well as Bosworth. Building operate at the old Cattle Market as well as various other sites has disclosed evidence of settlement on the hill considering that the Bronze Age. Remains of a Roman rental property have actually been located 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 2 manors at Bosworth one belonging to an Anglo-Saxon knight named Fernot, and also some sokemen. Following 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 awarded by William the Conqueror to the Matter of Meulan from Normandy, Robert de Beaumont, 1st Earl of Leicester. Subsequently, the town gone by marital relationship dowry to the English branch of the French House of Harcourt. King Edward I offered 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, as well as on today became a "town" by typical definition. The two oldest buildings in Bosworth, St. Peter's Church and also the Red Lion bar, were constructed during the 14th century. The Battle of Bosworth happened to south of the town in 1485 as the final battle in the Wars of the Roses between your house of Lancaster and also your house 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 town on its way to Leicester Cathedral for his reburial. This occasion is now memorialized with a floor plaque before the war memorial in the community square.
