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, boosting to 2,097 at the 2011 census. In 1974, Market Bosworth Rural District merged with Hinckley Rural Area to develop the district of Hinckley and also Bosworth. Structure operate at the old Cattle Market and also other sites has disclosed evidence of negotiation on the hill because the Bronze Age. Remains of a Roman vacation home have actually been found on the east side of Barton Road. Bosworth as an Anglo-Saxon town dates from the 8th century. Before the Norman Conquest of 1066, there were two manors at Bosworth one belonging to an Anglo-Saxon knight called Fernot, and some sokemen. Following the Norman occupation, as tape-recorded in the Domesday Book of 1086, both the Anglo-Saxon manors and also the town were part of the lands awarded by William the Conqueror to the Matter of Meulan from Normandy, Robert de Beaumont, 1st Earl of Leicester. Ultimately, the town gone by marriage dowry to the English branch of the French House of Harcourt. King Edward I offered an imperial charter to Sir William Harcourt permitting a market to be held every Wednesday. The village took the name Market Bosworth from 12 May 1285, and also on today ended up being a "town" by common definition. Both oldest structures in Bosworth, St. Peter's Church and the Red Lion pub, were developed throughout the 14th century. The Battle of Bosworth happened to south of the community in 1485 as the final battle in the Wars of the Roses between your home of Lancaster and the House of York, which led to the fatality 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 travelled through the town on its way to Leicester Cathedral for his reburial. This occasion is now memorialized with a flooring plaque in front of the war memorial in the community square.
