Market Bosworth
Market Bosworth is a small market community and 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 develop the district of Hinckley and Bosworth. Building operate at the old Cattle Market and also other sites has exposed evidence of settlement on the hill since the Bronze Age. Remains of a Roman villa have been located on the east side of Barton Road. Bosworth as an Anglo-Saxon village dates from the 8th century. Prior To the Norman Conquest of 1066, there were two manors at Bosworth one coming from an Anglo-Saxon knight called Fernot, and some sokemen. Complying with the Norman conquest, as videotaped in the Domesday Book of 1086, both the Anglo-Saxon manors and also the town became part of the lands awarded by William the Conqueror to the Matter of Meulan from Normandy, Robert de Beaumont, 1st Earl of Leicester. Subsequently, the town gone 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 allowing a market to be held every Wednesday. The town took the name Market Bosworth from 12 May 1285, as well as on now became a "community" by usual definition. The two oldest structures in Bosworth, St. Peter's Church and the Red Lion club, were built 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 as well as the House of York, which resulted in the fatality 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 gone 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 town square.