Pickering is an ancient market community and also civil parish in the Ryedale district of North Yorkshire, England, on the boundary of the North York Moors National Park. Historically part of the North Riding of Yorkshire, it sits at the foot of the moors, neglecting the Vale of Pickering to the south. According to tale the town 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 lost his ring and charged a young maiden of swiping it, however later on 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 married the young maiden; the name Pike-ring altered over the years to Pickering. It is a good story told to fit the name, but it is not the origin. 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 made Pickering preferred with site visitors. Neighboring places include Malton, Norton-on-Derwent and also Scarborough.
