Pickering
Pickering is an old market community and also 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 town was founded by King Peredurus around 270 BC; nonetheless, the town as it exists today is of middle ages beginning. The tale has it that the king shed his ring as well as accused a young maiden of taking it, however later that day the ring was located in a pike captured in the River Costa for his dinner. The king was so satisfied to find his ring he married the young maiden; the name Pike-ring altered throughout the years to Pickering. It is a great story informed to fit the name, yet 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 locations of Pickering Parish Church, with its medieval wall paints, Pickering Castle, the North Yorkshire Moors Railway and Beck Isle Museum have actually made Pickering preferred with site visitors. Neighboring places include Malton, Norton-on-Derwent and also Scarborough.