Pickering, a market-town in the North Riding of Yorkshire, 32 miles NNE. of York. It has a fine ruined castle, which was Richard II.'s first prison, and was dismantled by the Roundheads, and an interesting parish church. Pop. (1881) 3931; (1891) 3676.
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Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 8: Peasant to Eoumelia, p. 166
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