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The Vale of Pickering is a low-lying flat area of land in North Yorkshire, England. It is drained by the River Derwent. The landscape is rural with scattered villages and small market towns. It has been inhabited continuously from the Mesolithic period. The present economy is largely agricultural with light industry and tourism playing an increasing role.

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Vale of Pickering

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The Vale of Pickering is a low-lying flat area of land in North Yorkshire, England. It is drained by the River Derwent. The landscape is rural with scattered...

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Pickering

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Yorkshire Vale of Pickering, North Yorkshire Lake Pickering, a former lake Pickering, Missouri Pickerington, Ohio Pickering, Pennsylvania Pickering Township...

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North York Moors

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Hambleton Hills above the Vale of Mowbray. To the south lies the broken line of the Tabular Hills and the Vale of Pickering. Four roads cross the North...

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List of vales in England and Wales

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Shropshire) Vale of Mowbray (Yorkshire) Vale of Neath (Welsh: Cwm Nedd) (Glamorgan) Vale of Pewsey (Wiltshire) Vale of Pickering (Yorkshire) Vale of Powis (Powys)...

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Yorkshire Wolds

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north, on the other side of the Vale of Pickering, lie the North York Moors, and to the east the hills flatten into the plain of Holderness. The hills are...

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North Yorkshire

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the Vale of Mowbray in the north and Vale of York in the south. The North York Moors uplands lie to the east, and south of them the Vale of Pickering is...

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History of Yorkshire

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Pickering then turns south again to drain the eastern part of the Vale of York. It empties into the River Ouse at Barmby on the Marsh. To the east of...

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Ryedale

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Yorkshire, England. It was in the Vale of Pickering, a low-lying flat area of land drained by the River Derwent. The Vale's landscape is rural with scattered...

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Geology of Yorkshire

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rocks of the Tabular Hills towards the south of the area. Overlying the Corallian rocks is the Kimmeridge Clay which underlies the Vale of Pickering but...

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Lake Pickering

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Lake Pickering was an extensive proglacial lake of the Devensian glacial. It filled the Vale of Pickering between the North York Moors and the Yorkshire...

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Helmsley

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part of the North Riding of Yorkshire, the town is located at the point where Ryedale leaves the moorland and joins the flat Vale of Pickering. Helmsley...

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Pickering Castle

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Pickering Castle is a motte-and-bailey fortification in Pickering, North Yorkshire, England. The original castle was made of timber, and the later stone...

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A169 road

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Malton on the edge of the Yorkshire Wolds through the Vale of Pickering and across the North York Moors to join the A171 just west of Whitby. It is a single...

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Dominic Powlesland

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teenage years. Powlesland's archaeological work has focused on the Vale of Pickering in Yorkshire. He has been working on this landscape since 1977, not...

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Star Carr

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farmland at the eastern end of the Vale of Pickering. During the Mesolithic the site was near the outflow at the western end of a palaeolake, known as Lake...

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Forge Valley Line

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branch of the North Eastern Railway between Seamer and Pickering in North Yorkshire, England. The line was intended to link Scarborough with Pickering. It...

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Marishes

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of some 2,960 acres (1,199 hectares), and is located between Malton and Pickering in the low-lying Vale of Pickering. Whilst the main occupation of the...

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Kirkdale Cave

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in the Vale of Pickering, North Yorkshire, England. It was discovered by workmen in 1821, and found to contain fossilized bones of a variety of mammals...

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Chantal Conneller

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thesis was titled "Space, time and technology: the Early Mesolithic of the Vale of Pickering, North Yorkshire". Conneller was lecturer in Prehistoric Archaeology...

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Folkton

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small village and civil parish at the foot of the Yorkshire Wolds and on the edge of the Vale of Pickering on an area known as Folkton Carr (carr meaning...

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Sawdon

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which is on the A170 road connecting Pickering with Scarborough. It lies at the northern edge of the Vale of Pickering with Hackness Forest and the North...

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List of places in Yorkshire

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Ulrome, Ulshaw Bridge, Uncleby, Upper Poppleton, Upperthong Vale of Pickering, Vale of York Wakefield, Walden, Wales, Walkington, Walsden, Wansford,...

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Yorkshire

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south then westwards through the Vale of Pickering then turns south again to drain the eastern part of the Vale of York. It empties into the River Ouse...

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Chiltern Hills

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prominent escarpment, south of the Vale of Pickering. The beds of the Chalk Group were deposited over the buried northwestern margin of the Anglo-Brabant Massif...

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Nunnington Hall

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grounds of the house from the village. Above, a ridge known as Caulkley's Bank lies between Nunnington and the Vale of York to the south. The Vale of Pickering...

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