Hinckley and Bosworth is a local government district with borough status in Leicestershire, England.

The borough also includes the town of Earl Shilton and numerous villages and surrounding rural areas.

[3] The shadow council elected to oversee the transition to the new system requested a change to "Hinckley and Bosworth", which was agreed by the government on 20 November 1973, before the new district formally came into being.

[4] The new district was awarded borough status from its creation, allowing the chair of the council to take the title of mayor.

[16] The district is broadly coterminous to the Bosworth parliamentary constituency, which is represented by Luke Evans (Conservative).

Two large neighbouring urban areas lie to the south of the borough: Hinckley and Burbage and Barwell and Earl Shilton.

[19] To the east of the wedge lies Burbage Common and Woods, a large popular green recreational area.

The west of the borough is largely flat in nature, dominated by the River Sence flood plain.

The pre-1974 Hinckley Urban District became an unparished area on the borough's creation in 1974, but four new parishes have since been created from parts of that area: Burbage, Stoke Golding (both created 1986),[26] Earl Shilton (1995)[27] and Barwell (2007),[28] leaving just the central part of Hinckley itself as unparished.