Market Bosworth
Market Bosworth is a small market town as well as 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 Area to develop the area of Hinckley as well as Bosworth. Building work at the old Cattle Market and also other sites has actually revealed proof of negotiation on the hill because 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 village dates from the 8th century. Before the Norman Conquest of 1066, there were two manors at Bosworth one coming from an Anglo-Saxon knight named Fernot, and some sokemen. Following the Norman conquest, as taped 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. Ultimately, the town passed by marriage 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 town took the name Market Bosworth from 12 May 1285, and on this particular day became a "community" by usual meaning. Both oldest structures in Bosworth, St. Peter's Church and the Red Lion bar, were developed throughout the 14th century. The Battle of Bosworth happened to south of the town in 1485 as the end of the world in the Wars of the Roses between your home of Lancaster as well as the House of York, which caused the fatality 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 flooring plaque in front of the war memorial in the town square.
