Pickering
Pickering is an old market town and also civil parish in the Ryedale area of North Yorkshire, England, on the boundary of the North York Moors National Park. 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 community was founded by King Peredurus around 270 BC; nonetheless, the town as it exists today is of middle ages beginning. The legend has it that the king lost his ring and charged a young maiden of swiping it, however later that day the ring was found in a pike caught in the River Costa for his supper. The king was so satisfied to locate his ring he married the young maiden; the name Pike-ring changed throughout the years to Pickering. It is a nice story informed to fit the name, yet it is not the beginning. Pickering is thought to be named after the fans of an Anglian man called Picer or some such personal name-- the Picer-ingas. The visitor places of Pickering Parish Church, with its medieval wall paintings, Pickering Castle, the North Yorkshire Moors Railway as well as Beck Isle Museum have actually made Pickering prominent with visitors. Close-by places include Malton, Norton-on-Derwent as well as Scarborough.
