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 combined with Hinckley Rural District to form the area of Hinckley as well as Bosworth. Structure work at the old Cattle Market as well as various other sites has actually revealed evidence of settlement on capital given that the Bronze Age. Remains of a Roman rental property have actually been found 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 called Fernot, and also some sokemen. Complying with the Norman conquest, as videotaped in the Domesday Book of 1086, both the Anglo-Saxon manors and the village belonged to the lands granted by William the Conqueror to the Matter of Meulan from Normandy, Robert de Beaumont, 1st Earl of Leicester. Ultimately, the village 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 permitting a market to be held every Wednesday. The town took the name Market Bosworth from 12 May 1285, and on this particular day became a "town" by common meaning. The two earliest structures in Bosworth, St. Peter's Church and also the Red Lion pub, were constructed during the 14th century. The Battle of Bosworth happened to south of the town in 1485 as the final battle in the Wars of the Roses in between your house of Lancaster as well as your home of York, which led to the death 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 event is currently memorialized with a flooring plaque before the war memorial in the town square.