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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, ignoring the Vale of Pickering to the south. According to tale 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 shed his ring and also accused a young maiden of stealing it, yet later that day the ring was located in a pike caught in the River Costa for his dinner. The king was so happy to discover his ring he wed the young maiden; the name Pike-ring altered for many years to Pickering. It is a good story told to fit the name, however it is not the origin. Pickering is thought to be called after the fans of an Anglian man named Picer or some such personal name-- the Picer-ingas. The traveler 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. Close-by locations include Malton, Norton-on-Derwent and also Scarborough.
