Pickering is an ancient market town and civil parish in the Ryedale district 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; nevertheless, the town as it exists today is of medieval beginning. The legend has it that the king shed his ring and also accused a young maiden of swiping it, yet later that day the ring was found in a pike captured in the River Costa for his supper. The king was so happy to find his ring he wed the young maiden; the name Pike-ring transformed throughout the years to Pickering. It is a good story told to fit the name, however it is not the origin. Pickering is thought to be called after the followers of an Anglian man called Picer or some such personal name-- the Picer-ingas. The tourist places of Pickering Parish Church, with its medieval wall paintings, Pickering Castle, the North Yorkshire Moors Railway and also Beck Isle Museum have actually made Pickering prominent with site visitors. Close-by places include Malton, Norton-on-Derwent and also Scarborough.