Market Bosworth is a little market town and also civil parish 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 District to develop the area of Hinckley as well as Bosworth. Building work at the old Livestock Market and also other sites has actually exposed evidence of negotiation on the hill given that the Bronze Age. Remains of a Roman rental property have actually been located 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 2 manors at Bosworth one coming from an Anglo-Saxon knight called Fernot, as well as some sokemen. Following the Norman conquest, as tape-recorded in the Domesday Book of 1086, both the Anglo-Saxon manors and also the town belonged to the lands awarded by William the Conqueror to the Count of Meulan from Normandy, Robert de Beaumont, 1st Earl of Leicester. Ultimately, the town passed by marriage dowry to the English branch of the French House of Harcourt. King Edward I offered a royal 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 also on this day came to be a "town" by typical definition. The two oldest structures in Bosworth, St. Peter's Church and also the Red Lion pub, were developed during the 14th century. The Battle of Bosworth happened to south of the community in 1485 as the final battle in the Wars of the Roses between your house of Lancaster and also the House of York, which resulted in the death of King Richard III. Complying with the exploration of the remains of Richard III in Leicester during 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 event is currently honored with a flooring plaque in front of the war memorial in the community square.