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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 Park. 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 legend the town was founded by King Peredurus around 270 BC; nonetheless, the community as it exists today is of middle ages origin. The legend has it that the king shed his ring and charged a young maiden of taking it, yet later on that day the ring was located in a pike captured in the River Costa for his supper. The king was so satisfied to discover his ring he wed the young maiden; the name Pike-ring changed throughout the years to Pickering. It is a great story informed to fit the name, however it is not the beginning. 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 places of Pickering Parish Church, with its middle ages wall paintings, Pickering Castle, the North Yorkshire Moors Railway as well as Beck Isle Museum have made Pickering popular with site visitors. Nearby areas include Malton, Norton-on-Derwent and Scarborough.