Market Bosworth
Market Bosworth is a small market town as well as 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 Area to form the area of Hinckley and also Bosworth. Building operate at the old Livestock Market and various other sites has exposed proof of negotiation on capital since the Bronze Age. Remains of a Roman suite have been discovered 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 belonging to an Anglo-Saxon knight named Fernot, and also some sokemen. Following the Norman conquest, as taped in the Domesday Book of 1086, both the Anglo-Saxon manors and also the town 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 provided 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 on this particular day came to be a "community" by common meaning. Both earliest buildings in Bosworth, St. Peter's Church and also the Red Lion bar, were constructed throughout 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 the House of York, which caused the death of King Richard III. Complying with the discovery of the remains of Richard III in Leicester throughout 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 event is currently commemorated with a flooring plaque in front of the war memorial in the community square.
