Pickering
Pickering is an old market town 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, overlooking the Vale of Pickering to the south. According to legend the community was founded by King Peredurus around 270 BC; however, the town as it exists today is of middle ages beginning. The legend has it that the king lost his ring as well as accused a young maiden of taking it, but later that day the ring was located in a pike caught in the River Costa for his supper. The king was so pleased to discover his ring he wed the young maiden; the name Pike-ring altered for many 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 named Picer or some such personal name-- the Picer-ingas. The visitor venues of Pickering Parish Church, with its middle ages wall surface paintings, Pickering Castle, the North Yorkshire Moors Railway as well as Beck Isle Museum have actually made Pickering prominent with visitors. Close-by areas include Malton, Norton-on-Derwent and Scarborough.
