Place:Market Bosworth, Leicestershire, England

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NameMarket Bosworth
Alt namesBosewordesource: Domesday Book (1985) p 162
Bosworth-Fieldsource: Family History Library Catalog
Market-Bosworthsource: Family History Library Catalog
TypeTown
Coordinates52.617°N 1.4°W
Located inLeicestershire, England
See alsoSparkenhoe Hundred, Leicestershire, Englandhundred in which the parish was included
source: Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names
source: Family History Library Catalog


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Market Bosworth is a market town and 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. It is most famously near to the site of the decisive final battle of the Wars of the Roses.

In 1974, Market Bosworth Rural District merged with Hinckley Rural District to form the district of Hinckley and Bosworth.

Although the town is in Leicestershire, its postal address is Nuneaton, Warwickshire and postal area code CV13.

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