Market Bosworth
Market Bosworth is a tiny 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 create the area of Hinckley and also Bosworth. Building work at the old Cattle Market as well as various other sites has disclosed evidence of negotiation on capital since the Bronze Age. Remains of a Roman vacation home have been located on the east side of Barton Road. Bosworth as an Anglo-Saxon village dates 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, 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 were 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 town passed by marriage dowry to the English branch of the French House of Harcourt. King Edward I offered a royal charter to Sir William Harcourt permitting 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 interpretation. The two earliest buildings in Bosworth, St. Peter's Church and the Red Lion bar, were constructed during the 14th century. The Battle of Bosworth took place to south of the community in 1485 as the end of the world in the Wars of the Roses between the House of Lancaster and your house of York, which caused the fatality of King Richard III. Adhering to the exploration of the remains of Richard III in Leicester during 2012, on Sunday 22 March 2015 the king's funeral cortège gone through the community on its way to Leicester Cathedral for his reburial. This occasion is currently celebrated with a flooring plaque before the war memorial in the community square.
