Market Bosworth is a tiny 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 combined with Hinckley Rural District to develop the area of Hinckley and also Bosworth. Building work at the old Cattle Market and also various other sites has revealed proof of negotiation on the hill since the Bronze Age. Remains of a Roman villa have actually 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 two manors at Bosworth one belonging to an Anglo-Saxon knight called Fernot, and also some sokemen. Adhering to the Norman occupation, as tape-recorded in the Domesday Book of 1086, both the Anglo-Saxon manors and the town belonged to the lands granted by William the Conqueror to the Matter of Meulan from Normandy, Robert de Beaumont, 1st Earl of Leicester. Consequently, the village gone by marital relationship dowry to the English branch of the French House of Harcourt. King Edward I provided 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, as well as on this day ended up being a "community" by typical meaning. Both oldest buildings in Bosworth, St. Peter's Church and also the Red Lion pub, were developed during the 14th century. The Battle of Bosworth occurred to south of the community in 1485 as the end of the world in the Wars of the Roses in between your house of Lancaster and the House of York, which led to the fatality of King Richard III. Complying with the discovery of the remains of Richard III in Leicester during 2012, on Sunday 22 March 2015 the king's funeral cortège passed through the town on its way to Leicester Cathedral for his reburial. This event is now honored with a flooring plaque in front of the war memorial in the community square.