Leicestershire
Hinckley & Bosworth District
Market Bosworth

Market Bosworth

Market Bosworth is a market town and civil parish in Leicestershire, England. At the 2001 Census, it had a population of 1,906, increasing to 2,097 at the 2011 census.
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  • Type: Town with 2,100 residents
  • Description: village and market town in Leicestershire, England, UK
  • Also known as: “Bosworth” and “Market Bosworth, Leicestershire”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Dixie Grammar School and Market Bosworth Country Park.

School
Photo: David Barnes, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a private school in Market Bosworth, . The earliest records of the School's existence date from 1320, but the school was re-founded in 1601 under the will of an Elizabethan merchant and Lord Mayor of London, Sir Wolstan Dixie, by his great-nephew Sir Wolstan Dixie of Appleby Magna, who came to live in Market Bosworth in 1608.

Park
is to the east of Market Bosworth town. The 35 hectares landscaped Country Park was formerly part of Bosworth Hall deer parkland.

Hotel building
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
is a historic country house and Grade II* listed building in the rural town of Market Bosworth in , , now known as the Hotel.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Barton in the Beans and Shenton.

Village
Photo: David Luther Thomas, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a hamlet and former civil parish, now in the parish of , in the Hinckley and Bosworth district of , England. is situated 2 miles north of Market Bosworth.

Village
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is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Dadlington and Sutton Cheney, in the Hinckley and Bosworth district, in the county of , England, situated 2.20 miles south-west of Market Bosworth. is situated 2 miles southwest of Market Bosworth.

Village
Photo: John Salmon, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of , in the Hinckley and Bosworth district, in , England. is situated 2½ miles northwest of Market Bosworth.

Market Bosworth

Latitude
52.62399° or 52° 37′ 26″ north
Longitude
-1.40181° or 1° 24′ 7″ west
Population
2,100
Elevation
440 feet (134 metres)
United Nations Location Code
GB MBT
Open location code
9C4WJHFX+H7
Open­Street­Map ID
node 27149884
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2643030
Wiki­data ID
Q744321
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In Other Languages

From Armenian to Welsh—“Market Bosworth” goes by many names.
  • Armenian: “Բոսվորթի շուկա”
  • Asturian: “Market Bosworth”
  • Basque: “Market Bosworth”
  • Catalan: “Market Bosworth”
  • Cebuano: “Market Bosworth”
  • Dutch: “Market Bosworth”
  • French: “Market Bosworth”
  • German: “Market Bosworth”
  • Irish: “Market Bosworth”
  • Italian: “Market Bosworth”
  • Japanese: “マーケット・ボズワース”
  • Japanese: “レスターシャー”
  • Ladin: “Market Bosworth”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Market Bosworth”
  • Norwegian: “Market Bosworth”
  • Persian: “مارکت بازورث”
  • Persian: “مارکت بوسوورث”
  • Polish: “Market Bosworth”
  • Russian: “Босвортский рынок”
  • South Azerbaijani: “مارکت بازورث”
  • Spanish: “Market Bosworth”
  • Swedish: “Market Bosworth”
  • Turkish: “Market Bosworth”
  • Ukrainian: “Босвортський ринок”
  • Ukrainian: “Маркет-Босворт”
  • Volapük: “Market Bosworth”
  • Welsh: “Market Bosworth”

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Highlights include The Old Black Horse Public House and Market Bosworth Bowling Club.

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Market Bosworth”. Photo: Colin Park, CC BY-SA 2.0.