Pickering
Pickering is an old 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 sits 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; nonetheless, 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 stealing it, but later that day the ring was located in a pike captured in the River Costa for his dinner. The king was so pleased to find his ring he married the young maiden; the name Pike-ring transformed for many years to Pickering. It is a nice story informed to fit the name, yet it is not the origin. Pickering is thought to be called after the followers of an Anglian man named Picer or some such personal name-- the Picer-ingas. The tourist places of Pickering Parish Church, with its middle ages wall surface paints, Pickering Castle, the North Yorkshire Moors Railway and also Beck Isle Museum have made Pickering prominent with visitors. Neighboring areas include Malton, Norton-on-Derwent and also Scarborough.
