Pickering
Pickering is an old market community and civil parish in the Ryedale area of North Yorkshire, England, on the boundary of the North York Moors National Park. Historically part of the North Riding of Yorkshire, it rests at the foot of the moors, overlooking the Vale of Pickering to the south. According to tale the town was founded by King Peredurus around 270 BC; however, the community as it exists today is of middle ages beginning. The legend has it that the king lost his ring and implicated a young maiden of taking it, but later on that day the ring was found in a pike captured in the River Costa for his dinner. The king was so pleased to locate his ring he married the young maiden; the name Pike-ring changed over the years to Pickering. It is a great tale informed to fit the name, but it is not the origin. Pickering is thought to be called after the followers of an Anglian man named Picer or some such personal name-- the Picer-ingas. The vacationer places of Pickering Parish Church, with its medieval wall paints, Pickering Castle, the North Yorkshire Moors Railway and also Beck Isle Museum have made Pickering prominent with visitors. Nearby areas include Malton, Norton-on-Derwent as well as Scarborough.
