Market Bosworth
Market Bosworth is a small market community and also civil church in western Leicestershire, England. At the 2001 Census, it had a population of 1,906, enhancing to 2,097 at the 2011 census. In 1974, Market Bosworth Rural District combined with Hinckley Rural District to create the area of Hinckley and also Bosworth. Building operate at the old Cattle Market as well as various other sites has revealed proof of settlement on the hill given that the Bronze Age. Remains of a Roman suite 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 called Fernot, and also some sokemen. Following the Norman conquest, as recorded 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 Matter of Meulan from Normandy, Robert de Beaumont, 1st Earl of Leicester. Subsequently, the village 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 enabling a market to be held every Wednesday. The town took the name Market Bosworth from 12 May 1285, and also on today came to be a "community" by common definition. The two oldest buildings in Bosworth, St. Peter's Church as well as the Red Lion bar, were constructed throughout the 14th century. The Battle of Bosworth occurred to south of the community in 1485 as the end of the world in the Wars of the Roses in between the House of Lancaster and your home of York, which resulted in the death of King Richard III. Complying with the exploration of the remains of Richard III in Leicester throughout 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 occasion is now celebrated with a flooring plaque before the war memorial in the community square.