Pickering
Pickering is an ancient market community and also civil parish in the Ryedale district of North Yorkshire, England, on the boundary of the North York Moors National Park. Historically part of the North Riding of Yorkshire, it sits at the foot of the moors, overlooking the Vale of Pickering to the south. According to legend the community was founded by King Peredurus around 270 BC; nonetheless, the community as it exists today is of middle ages origin. The tale has it that the king shed his ring and also accused a young maiden of stealing it, but later that day the ring was found in a pike caught in the River Costa for his supper. The king was so happy to find his ring he married the young maiden; the name Pike-ring transformed over the years to Pickering. It is a wonderful tale informed to fit the name, yet it is not the origin. Pickering is believed to be called after the fans of an Anglian man named Picer or some such personal name-- the Picer-ingas. The visitor places of Pickering Parish Church, with its middle ages wall surface paintings, Pickering Castle, the North Yorkshire Moors Railway as well as Beck Isle Museum have made Pickering popular with site visitors. Neighboring areas consist of Malton, Norton-on-Derwent and Scarborough.
