Market Bosworth
Market Bosworth is a little market community and 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 merged with Hinckley Rural District to develop the area of Hinckley and also Bosworth. Structure work at the old Cattle Market and also various other sites has actually disclosed evidence of settlement on the hill since the Bronze Age. Remains of a Roman villa have been found on the east side of Barton Road. Bosworth as an Anglo-Saxon town days 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 also some sokemen. Complying with the Norman conquest, as tape-recorded in the Domesday Book of 1086, both the Anglo-Saxon manors and the town became part of the lands granted 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 gave a royal charter to Sir William Harcourt enabling a market to be held every Wednesday. The town took the name Market Bosworth from 12 May 1285, and on this day came to be 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 happened to south of the community in 1485 as the final battle in the Wars of the Roses in between your house of Lancaster as well as your house of York, which caused the death of King Richard III. Following the exploration of the remains of Richard III in Leicester during 2012, on Sunday 22 March 2015 the king's funeral cortège passed through the community on its way to Leicester Cathedral for his reburial. This event is currently commemorated with a floor plaque in front of the war memorial in the community square.