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, enhancing to 2,097 at the 2011 census. In 1974, Market Bosworth Rural District merged with Hinckley Rural Area to create the district of Hinckley as well as Bosworth. Structure work at the old Cattle Market and other sites has exposed proof of settlement on the hill since the Bronze Age. Remains of a Roman villa have actually been found 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 belonging to an Anglo-Saxon knight called Fernot, and some sokemen. Following the Norman conquest, as taped in the Domesday Book of 1086, both the Anglo-Saxon manors as well as the town were part of the lands awarded by William the Conqueror to the Count of Meulan from Normandy, Robert de Beaumont, 1st Earl of Leicester. Subsequently, the village passed 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 permitting a market to be held every Wednesday. The village took the name Market Bosworth from 12 May 1285, and on this particular day came to be a "community" by common definition. The two earliest buildings in Bosworth, St. Peter's Church as well as the Red Lion bar, were built throughout the 14th century. The Battle of Bosworth occurred to south of the town in 1485 as the end of the world in the Wars of the Roses in between your house of Lancaster and also your home of York, which resulted in the death of King Richard III. Adhering to the discovery of the remains of Richard III in Leicester throughout 2012, on Sunday 22 March 2015 the king's funeral cortège passed 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.