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Pickering, a parish in the wapentake and liberty of Pickering Lythe; 8 miles from Kirkbymoorside; 9 from Malton; and 18 from Scarbro'. Market Monday, Fairs, Monday before February 14, Monday before May 13, September 25, Monday before November 23, for horned cattle horses, sheep, and pigs. Principal Inns, Black Swan, and White Swan.

The town of Pickering, which is said by Fabian, to have been built 270 years before Christ, covers a large extent of ground, irregularly built. It sent members to parliament 23rd of Edward I. but was discontinued in the same reign. It belongs to the Duchy of Lancaster, and has a jurisdiction over several adjacent villages called the honour of Pickering. Richard Hill, Esq. of Thornton, is lord of the manor, and also lord of the honour of Pickering-Lythe.

It is a place of great antiquity, and formerly sent two members to parliament, but it no longer retains that privilege. The town is long and straggling, but it is pleasantly situated on an eminence, at the bottom of which runs a brook, called Pickering Beck. Here is a weekly market on Monday. The church is an ancient and spacious building, with a lofty spire, dedicated to St. Peter, and the living is a vicarage, in the patronage of the Dean of York.

Description(s) edited from Langdale's Yorkshire Dictionary (1822) and Baines's Directory of the County of York (1823) and other sources.

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