Pickering is an ancient market community and also civil parish in the Ryedale area of North Yorkshire, England, on the boundary of the North York Moors National Forest. Historically part of the North Riding of Yorkshire, it rests at the foot of the moors, ignoring the Vale of Pickering to the south. According to legend the community was founded by King Peredurus around 270 BC; however, the community as it exists today is of medieval origin. The legend has it that the king shed his ring and implicated a young maiden of swiping it, yet later on that day the ring was discovered in a pike captured in the River Costa for his supper. The king was so satisfied to discover his ring he wed the young maiden; the name Pike-ring altered throughout the years to Pickering. It is a great story informed to fit the name, yet it is not the origin. Pickering is believed to be named after the followers of an Anglian man named Picer or some such personal name-- the Picer-ingas. The visitor locations of Pickering Parish Church, with its middle ages wall surface paints, Pickering Castle, the North Yorkshire Moors Railway as well as Beck Isle Museum have made Pickering prominent with visitors. Close-by areas include Malton, Norton-on-Derwent and also Scarborough.