Pickering, North Yorkshire
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| Coordinates | 54 ° 15 ′ N , 0 ° 47 ′ W | ||
| OS National Grid | SE797838 | ||
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| Residents | 6616 (as of April 29, 2001) | ||
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| Post town | PICKERING | ||
| ZIP code section | YO18 | ||
| prefix | 01751 | ||
| Part of the country | England | ||
| region | Yorkshire and the Humber | ||
| Shire county | North Yorkshire | ||
| District | Ryedale | ||
| British Parliament | Thirsk and Malton | ||
Pickering is a small town in District Ryedale the English county of North Yorkshire with 6,616 inhabitants (29 April 2001). The main attractions of the place are the Beck Isle Museum and the Saints Peter and Paul Church with its famous medieval wall paintings.
traffic
Pickering is on the A169 ( Malton - Whitby ) and A170 ( Thirsk - Scarborough ) roads . There are bus connections to York via Malton as well as to Whitby and Thirsk. Pickering also has a city bus route.
The nearest train station in the regular service is Malton, about 12 km south of Pickering. Pickering Station is the starting point for the North Yorkshire Moors Railway , a museum railroad leading to Whitby during the summer. Plans to reactivate the branch line from Malton to Pickering, which would create a continuous rail link from York to Whitby, were put on hold due to the lack of financial resources. It would cost around £ 21 million to complete.
sons and daughters of the town
- John Lockwood Kipling (1837–1911), architect, sculptor and illustrator
- Paul Davison (* 1971), snooker player
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ryedale District Council Local Transport Plan Statement 2003 (PDF) Ryedale District Council. Archived from the original on February 12, 2012. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved September 8, 2008.
