Market Bosworth is a small market town and also civil church in western Leicestershire, England. At the 2001 Census, it had a population of 1,906, enhancing 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. Building work at the old Livestock Market and various other sites has disclosed proof of settlement 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 dates from the 8th century. Prior To the Norman Conquest of 1066, there were two manors at Bosworth one belonging to an Anglo-Saxon knight named 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 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 a royal charter to Sir William Harcourt enabling a market to be held every Wednesday. The village took the name Market Bosworth from 12 May 1285, as well as on this particular day came to be a "town" by usual definition. Both earliest buildings in Bosworth, St. Peter's Church and the Red Lion club, were developed throughout the 14th century. The Battle of Bosworth happened to south of the town in 1485 as the end of the world in the Wars of the Roses in between your house of Lancaster and your home of York, which resulted in the fatality of King Richard III. Adhering to the exploration 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 occasion is currently celebrated with a flooring plaque in front of the war memorial in the community square.