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Pickering

Pickering is a market and agricultural town in the Ryedale district of , with the rising behind. The town slumped from 1965 when it lost its railway, but this helped preserve its historic centre.
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  • Type: Town with 7,270 residents
  • Description: town in North Yorkshire, England
  • Also known as: “Pickering, North Yorkshire”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Pickering Castle and Beck Isle Museum.

Castle
Photo: MortimerCat, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a motte-and-bailey fortification in Pickering, , . The original castle was made of timber, and the later stone castle was a temporary prison for Richard II in 1399.

Museum
Photo: Geoff King, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The of Rural Life is a social history museum in Pickering, , . The museum features period business displays including the shops of a barber, blacksmith, chemist, cobbler, cooper, printer, gentleman's draper, dairy, and hardware store.

Church
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The Church of St Peter and St Paul, Pickering is the of the market town of Pickering in the county of . The church sits on the top of a small hill in the centre of the town and its spire is visible across the Ryedale district.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Middleton and Aislaby.

Village
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is a small village and civil parish in , England. It is situated on the A170 road to the west of Pickering. is Grade I listed.

Hamlet
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is a hamlet and civil parish near the town of Pickering, . It lies on the A170 to the west of Pickering between and .

Village
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is a village and civil parish in , England, about 3 miles east of Pickering on the edge of the North York Moors National Park. is situated 2½ miles east of Pickering.

Pickering

Latitude
54.2457° or 54° 14′ 44″ north
Longitude
-0.7766° or 0° 46′ 36″ west
Population
7,270
Elevation
203 feet (62 metres)
United Nations Location Code
GB PKR
Open location code
9C6X66WF+79
Open­Street­Map ID
node 27160542
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2640312
Wiki­data ID
Q2092325
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In Other Languages

From Asturian to Western Frisian—“Pickering” goes by many names.
  • Asturian: “Pickering”
  • Basque: “Pickering (Iparraldeko Yorkshire)”
  • Basque: “Pickering”
  • Bavarian: “Pickering”
  • Bengali: “পিকারিং”
  • Catalan: “Pickering”
  • Cebuano: “Pickering”
  • Chinese: “皮克林”
  • Chinese: “皮克灵”
  • Chinese: “皮克靈”
  • Dutch: “Pickering”
  • Finnish: “Pickering”
  • French: “Pickering”
  • German: “Pickering”
  • Gujarati: “પિકરીંગ”
  • Irish: “Pickering, Yorkshire Thuaidh”
  • Irish: “Pickering”
  • Italian: “Pickering”
  • Japanese: “ピカリング”
  • Kannada: “ಪಿಕರಿಂಗ್”
  • Korean: “피커링”
  • Ladin: “Pickering (North Yorkshire)”
  • Ladin: “Pickering”
  • Lithuanian: “Pikeringas”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Pickering i North Yorkshire”
  • Persian: “پیکرینگ، یورک‌شر شمالی”
  • Polish: “Pickering (North Yorkshire)”
  • Polish: “Pickering”
  • Portuguese: “Pickering”
  • Romanian: “Pickering, North Yorkshire”
  • Russian: “Пикеринг”
  • South Azerbaijani: “پیکرینق، قوزئی یورک‌شر”
  • Spanish: “Pickering”
  • Swedish: “Pickering, North Yorkshire”
  • Tamil: “பிக்கெரிங்”
  • Telugu: “పికరింగ్”
  • Turkish: “Pickering, North Yorkshire”
  • Urdu: “پکرنگ، شمالی یارکشائر”
  • Urdu: “پیکیرینج”
  • Volapük: “Pickering (North Yorkshire)”
  • Welsh: “Pickering, Gogledd Swydd Efrog”
  • Welsh: “Pickering”
  • Western Frisian: “Pickering (North Yorkshire)”
  • Western Frisian: “Pickering”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Pickering”. Photo: Reinhard Dietrich, Public domain.