Market Bosworth
Market Bosworth is a little market town and also 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 district of Hinckley and also Bosworth. Structure operate at the old Livestock Market as well as other sites has exposed proof of settlement on the hill given that 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. Prior To the Norman Conquest of 1066, there were 2 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 granted by William the Conqueror to the Matter of Meulan from Normandy, Robert de Beaumont, 1st Earl of Leicester. Consequently, 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 typical meaning. Both oldest buildings in Bosworth, St. Peter's Church and also the Red Lion club, were built during the 14th century. The Battle of Bosworth took place to south of the community in 1485 as the final battle in the Wars of the Roses in between your home of Lancaster as well as your home of York, which resulted in 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 passed through the community on its way to Leicester Cathedral for his reburial. This occasion is now celebrated with a flooring plaque in front of the war memorial in the town square.
