Market Bosworth
Market Bosworth is a tiny market town and also civil church 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 District to create the area of Hinckley as well as Bosworth. Building operate at the old Livestock Market and other sites has revealed evidence 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 town days from the 8th century. Before the Norman Conquest of 1066, there were 2 manors at Bosworth one coming from an Anglo-Saxon knight named Fernot, as well as some sokemen. Complying with the Norman conquest, as recorded in the Domesday Book of 1086, both the Anglo-Saxon manors and the village belonged to the lands awarded by William the Conqueror to the Count of Meulan from Normandy, Robert de Beaumont, 1st Earl of Leicester. Ultimately, the town passed by marital relationship dowry to the English branch of the French House of Harcourt. King Edward I offered an imperial charter to Sir William Harcourt enabling a market to be held every Wednesday. The village took the name Market Bosworth from 12 May 1285, and also on this day ended up being a "community" by usual meaning. The two oldest structures in Bosworth, St. Peter's Church and the Red Lion bar, were developed 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 in between the House of Lancaster and also your house 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 town on its way to Leicester Cathedral for his reburial. This occasion is now honored with a floor plaque in front of the war memorial in the community square.