Bosworth Explained

Bosworth may refer to:

• Battle of Bosworth Field, a battle during the Wars of the Roses in 15th century England

Places

United Kingdom

• Husbands Bosworth, a village in South Leicestershire
  • RAF Husbands Bosworth, a World War II aerodrome near Husbands Bosworth
• Market Bosworth, a town near the site of the Battle of Bosworth in south-western Leicestershire
• Bosworth (UK Parliament constituency), in south-western Leicestershire
• Hinckley and Bosworth, a local government district in south-western Leicestershire, originally named Bosworth

North America

• Bosworth, Missouri, a city in Carroll County, Missouri, United States
• Lake Bosworth, Washington, in Snohomish County, Washington, United States
• Mount Bosworth, on the border of Alberta and British Columbia, Canada

People

• Bosworth (surname), a surname and a list of people with the name
• Baron Bosworth, former title for the Duke of Berwick

Given name

• Frank Bosworth Brandegee (1864–1924), United States Representative and Senator from Connecticut
• William Bosworth Castle (1897–1990), American physician and physiologist who transformed hematology
• George Bosworth Churchill (1866–1925), American politician, Representative from Massachusetts, academic, editor
• Louis Bosworth Hurt (1885–1929), English landscape artist
• Stephen Bosworth Pound (1833–1911), pioneer lawyer, senator and judge in Nebraska, USA
• Benjamin Bosworth Smith (1784–1884), American Protestant Episcopal bishop

Other

• Bosworth (game), a board game
• Bosworth Independent College, a boarding school in Northampton, England

See also

• Bosworth Hall (disambiguation), several halls in Leicestershire
• Bosworth fracture, an ankle fracture
• Boeswarthia, a genus of snout moths
• Bosworthia, a genus of alga
• Boxworth, a village in South Cambridgeshire