Pickering
Pickering is an ancient market community and civil parish in the Ryedale area of North Yorkshire, England, on the border 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 tale the town was founded by King Peredurus around 270 BC; nevertheless, the town as it exists today is of medieval beginning. The tale has it that the king shed his ring and implicated a young maiden of swiping it, however later that day the ring was found in a pike caught in the River Costa for his supper. The king was so pleased to discover his ring he married the young maiden; the name Pike-ring transformed over the years to Pickering. It is a great story told 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 vacationer places of Pickering Parish Church, with its medieval wall surface paints, Pickering Castle, the North Yorkshire Moors Railway as well as Beck Isle Museum have made Pickering preferred with visitors. Neighboring locations include Malton, Norton-on-Derwent and Scarborough.
