Market Bosworth is a small market community and civil parish in western Leicestershire, England. At the 2001 Census, it had a population of 1,906, raising to 2,097 at the 2011 census. In 1974, Market Bosworth Rural District merged with Hinckley Rural Area to form the area of Hinckley and Bosworth. Building operate at the old Cattle Market and also other sites has exposed evidence of negotiation on capital because 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. Prior To the Norman Conquest of 1066, there were 2 manors at Bosworth one belonging to an Anglo-Saxon knight named Fernot, as well as some sokemen. Following the Norman conquest, as recorded in the Domesday Book of 1086, both the Anglo-Saxon manors as well as the village were 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 town gone by marital relationship dowry to the English branch of the French House of Harcourt. King Edward I provided an imperial 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 also on this day came to be a "town" by typical meaning. The two earliest buildings in Bosworth, St. Peter's Church as well as the Red Lion bar, were constructed during the 14th century. The Battle of Bosworth happened to south of the town in 1485 as the final battle in the Wars of the Roses in between the House of Lancaster and the House of York, which led to the death of King Richard III. Following the discovery of the remains of Richard III in Leicester during 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 event is now memorialized with a floor plaque in front of the war memorial in the town square.
