Pickering
Pickering is an ancient market town and also civil parish in the Ryedale area of North Yorkshire, England, on the border of the North York Moors National Forest. 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 legend the community was founded by King Peredurus around 270 BC; nevertheless, the community as it exists today is of medieval beginning. The tale has it that the king shed his ring as well as implicated a young maiden of stealing it, however later on that day the ring was located in a pike captured in the River Costa for his dinner. The king was so pleased to locate his ring he wed the young maiden; the name Pike-ring changed over the years to Pickering. It is a good 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 named Picer or some such personal name-- the Picer-ingas. The tourist venues of Pickering Parish Church, with its medieval wall paintings, Pickering Castle, the North Yorkshire Moors Railway and also Beck Isle Museum have made Pickering preferred with site visitors. Close-by areas include Malton, Norton-on-Derwent and also Scarborough.