Market Bosworth is a little market town and also civil church 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 create the district of Hinckley and Bosworth. Building operate at the old Cattle Market and other sites has actually exposed evidence of settlement on capital 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 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 also some sokemen. Complying with the Norman conquest, as tape-recorded in the Domesday Book of 1086, both the Anglo-Saxon manors and 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 village gone by marital relationship dowry to the English branch of the French House of Harcourt. King Edward I provided 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, and on this particular day became a "community" by usual definition. Both earliest 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 town in 1485 as the end of the world in the Wars of the Roses in between your home of Lancaster as well as the House of York, which led to the fatality 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 travelled through the community on its way to Leicester Cathedral for his reburial. This occasion is now honored with a flooring plaque in front of the war memorial in the town square.