Market Bosworth
Market Bosworth is a little market community and also 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 combined with Hinckley Rural Area to form the area of Hinckley and Bosworth. Structure work at the old Cattle Market and also various other sites has revealed evidence of negotiation 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 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, and also some sokemen. Adhering to the Norman occupation, as taped in the Domesday Book of 1086, both the Anglo-Saxon manors and also the village became part of the lands granted by William the Conqueror to the Count of Meulan from Normandy, Robert de Beaumont, 1st Earl of Leicester. Subsequently, the village gone by marriage dowry to the English branch of the French House of Harcourt. King Edward I offered a royal charter to Sir William Harcourt allowing a market to be held every Wednesday. The town took the name Market Bosworth from 12 May 1285, and on today ended up being a "town" by usual meaning. The two earliest buildings in Bosworth, St. Peter's Church as well as the Red Lion pub, were constructed throughout the 14th century. The Battle of Bosworth occurred to south of the town in 1485 as the final battle in the Wars of the Roses between your house of Lancaster and your home of York, which led to the death of King Richard III. Complying with 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 currently honored with a flooring plaque before the war memorial in the town square.
