Pickering
Pickering is an ancient market community and civil parish in the Ryedale district of North Yorkshire, England, on the border of the North York Moors National Forest. Historically part of the North Riding of Yorkshire, it sits at the foot of the moors, forgeting 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 medieval origin. The tale has it that the king lost his ring and charged a young maiden of swiping it, yet 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 discover 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, yet it is not the beginning. Pickering is believed to be called after the followers of an Anglian man named Picer or some such personal name-- the Picer-ingas. The traveler places of Pickering Parish Church, with its middle ages wall paints, Pickering Castle, the North Yorkshire Moors Railway and Beck Isle Museum have made Pickering preferred with visitors. Nearby locations include Malton, Norton-on-Derwent and Scarborough.
