Market Bosworth

52.624219 - 1.401765Koordinaten: 52 ° 37 ' N, 1 ° 24 ' W

Market Bosworth is a place and a civil parish in Leicestershire, England with 1906 inhabitants ( 2001). There are traces of settlement from the Bronze Age in the area of ​​civil parish and also the remains of a Roman villa were discovered.

William I. were two manors, the Anglo-Saxon nobles belonged to Robert de Beaumont, and this is recorded in Doomsdaybook.

On May 12, 1285 Edward I granted the town the right Bosworth, weekly on Wednesday to hold a market, and the place took on the additional "Market".

On August 22, 1485 took place south of the village the Battle of Bosworth Field as the alleged final battle of the Wars of the Roses instead, in which Richard III was mortally wounded.

In the 16th century the manor of Bosworth Market changed hands several times until it finally. Become the property of Wolstan Dixie, whose great-nephew Wolstan Dixie of Appleby Magna lived as the first member of the family in Market Bosworth In 1601 he founded the Dixie Grammar School. In the 17th century the manor Bosworth Hall began a Grade II protected monument with the construction. The house is now used as a hotel.