Market Bosworth is a tiny market community 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 merged with Hinckley Rural District to create the area of Hinckley as well as Bosworth. Building operate at the old Livestock Market as well as other sites has actually disclosed evidence of settlement on capital given that the Bronze Age. Remains of a Roman vacation home have been discovered on the east side of Barton Road. Bosworth as an Anglo-Saxon village days from the 8th century. Before the Norman Conquest of 1066, there were 2 manors at Bosworth one coming from an Anglo-Saxon knight named Fernot, and some sokemen. Complying with the Norman occupation, as videotaped in the Domesday Book of 1086, both the Anglo-Saxon manors as well as the town belonged to the lands awarded by William the Conqueror to the Matter of Meulan from Normandy, Robert de Beaumont, 1st Earl of Leicester. Ultimately, the village passed by marital relationship dowry to the English branch of the French House of Harcourt. King Edward I offered 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 this day became a "community" by typical interpretation. The two oldest structures in Bosworth, St. Peter's Church and also the Red Lion bar, were developed throughout the 14th century. The Battle of Bosworth occurred to south of the town in 1485 as the final battle in the Wars of the Roses in between your home of Lancaster and the House of York, which resulted in the fatality of King Richard III. Adhering to the discovery of the remains of Richard III in Leicester during 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 event is now commemorated with a flooring plaque in front of the war memorial in the community square.