Market Bosworth is a small market community and civil parish 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 combined with Hinckley Rural Area to create the area of Hinckley and Bosworth. Building operate at the old Cattle Market as well as other sites has disclosed proof of negotiation on capital considering that the Bronze Age. Remains of a Roman villa have actually been discovered 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 two manors at Bosworth one coming from an Anglo-Saxon knight named Fernot, as well as some sokemen. Following the Norman conquest, as taped in the Domesday Book of 1086, both the Anglo-Saxon manors and the village 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 village gone by marriage dowry to the English branch of the French House of Harcourt. King Edward I gave a royal charter to Sir William Harcourt permitting a market to be held every Wednesday. The village took the name Market Bosworth from 12 May 1285, as well as on this day came to be a "community" by common definition. The two earliest structures in Bosworth, St. Peter's Church and also the Red Lion club, were built during the 14th century. The Battle of Bosworth occurred to south of the town in 1485 as the end of the world in the Wars of the Roses between your house of Lancaster and also your home of York, which caused the fatality 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 travelled through the community on its way to Leicester Cathedral for his reburial. This event is now honored with a floor plaque in front of the war memorial in the town square.