Pickering
Pickering is an ancient market community and also 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 rests at the foot of the moors, forgeting 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 middle ages 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 discovered in a pike caught in the River Costa for his supper. The king was so delighted to find his ring he married the young maiden; the name Pike-ring changed for many years to Pickering. It is a great tale informed to fit the name, however it is not the beginning. Pickering is thought to be named after the followers of an Anglian man called Picer or some such personal name-- the Picer-ingas. The traveler places of Pickering Parish Church, with its medieval wall surface paintings, Pickering Castle, the North Yorkshire Moors Railway and also Beck Isle Museum have made Pickering preferred with site visitors. Neighboring locations include Malton, Norton-on-Derwent as well as Scarborough.
