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Pickering is a bustling market town on the southern edge of the North Yorkshire Moors National Park. |
| Pickering Castle stands high on the hill overlooking the station Originally built by the Normans as a timber fort, it was rebuilt following fourteenth century raids by Scotland's Robert the Bruce Almost every king of medieval England stayed here must to enjoy the hunt in nearby Blansby Park, but some as prisoners. |  Pickering Castle |
 Pickering Station |
The Trout Farm is home to 1½ million young trout which are raised here, destined for the dinner table or for re-stocking rivers throughout the country Visitors who try their hand with a rod and line are almost guaranteed a catch . |
| The arches of lime kilns can be seen to the west of the line Limestone was needed to fertilize the fields further north and the supply at Pickering was a key reason why the line was built Limestone is still quarried a little further along the line near New Bridge. |  Pickering Station |
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