Market Bosworth is a tiny market town and civil church in western Leicestershire, England. At the 2001 Census, it had a population of 1,906, increasing to 2,097 at the 2011 census. In 1974, Market Bosworth Rural District merged with Hinckley Rural Area to create the area of Hinckley as well as Bosworth. Structure operate at the old Livestock Market as well as various other sites has exposed proof of settlement on the hill because the Bronze Age. Remains of a Roman suite have actually been discovered on the east side of Barton Road. Bosworth as an Anglo-Saxon village dates from the 8th century. Prior To the Norman Conquest of 1066, there were two manors at Bosworth one coming from an Anglo-Saxon knight called Fernot, and also some sokemen. Following the Norman occupation, as taped in the Domesday Book of 1086, both the Anglo-Saxon manors and also the village 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 passed by marriage dowry to the English branch of the French House of Harcourt. King Edward I gave an imperial charter to Sir William Harcourt enabling a market to be held every Wednesday. The town took the name Market Bosworth from 12 May 1285, and on this particular day ended up being a "town" by usual interpretation. The two earliest structures in Bosworth, St. Peter's Church and the Red Lion bar, were built throughout the 14th century. The Battle of Bosworth took place to south of the town in 1485 as the final battle in the Wars of the Roses in between the House of Lancaster and also the House of York, which resulted in 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 passed through the town on its way to Leicester Cathedral for his reburial. This occasion is now honored with a flooring plaque before the war memorial in the town square.