Pickering
Pickering is an old market community as well as 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 sits at the foot of the moors, ignoring the Vale of Pickering to the south. According to tale the town was founded by King Peredurus around 270 BC; nonetheless, the town as it exists today is of middle ages origin. The legend has it that the king shed his ring and also charged a young maiden of taking it, yet later on that day the ring was discovered in a pike caught in the River Costa for his dinner. The king was so happy to locate his ring he wed the young maiden; the name Pike-ring transformed for many years to Pickering. It is a great tale informed to fit the name, however it is not the origin. Pickering is believed to be called after the fans of an Anglian man called Picer or some such personal name-- the Picer-ingas. The tourist locations of Pickering Parish Church, with its middle ages wall paints, Pickering Castle, the North Yorkshire Moors Railway and also Beck Isle Museum have actually made Pickering prominent with visitors. Neighboring areas consist of Malton, Norton-on-Derwent as well as Scarborough.