Pickering may refer to:

Places

Antarctica

Pickering Nunataks Pickering Nunataks () is a group of nunataks lying 2 nautical miles (3.7 km) southwest of Mount Phoebe and on the northeast side of Saturn Glacier, near the east coast of Alexander Island, Antarctica. The nunataks were photographed by Lin ...

, Alexander Island

Australia

Pickering, South Australia Wool Bay (formerly Pickering) is a locality and a former government town in the Australia, Australian state of South Australia on the east coast of southern Yorke Peninsula. It is located between Stansbury, South Australia, Stansbury and Coobowi ...

, the original name (1872–1940) of the town of Wool Bay * Pickering Brook, Western Australia, Australia

Canada

Pickering, Ontario Pickering (2021 Canadian census, 2021 population 99,186) is a city located in Southern Ontario, Canada, immediately east of Toronto in Durham Region, Ontario, Durham Region. Beginning in the 1770s, the area was settled by primarily ethnic Britis ...

Pickering Village, Ontario Pickering Village is a former municipality and now a neighbourhood in the town of Ajax, within the Durham Region of Ontario, Canada. The Pickering Village derives its name from the former Pickering Township, which included the present-day town of ...

England

Pickering, North Yorkshire Pickering is a market town and civil parish in the Ryedale district in North Yorkshire, England, on the border of the North York Moors National Park. Historically part of the North Riding of Yorkshire, it is at the foot of the moors, overlook ...

Pickering Beck Pickering Beck is a river that runs for over from its source in the North York Moors National Park through the town of Pickering and on to its confluence with Costa Beck at Kirby Misperton. It is a meandering river that is fed by numerous nam ...

, North Yorkshire *

Vale of Pickering 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 ...

, North Yorkshire **

Lake Pickering 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 Wolds, when the (largely Scandinavian) ice blocked the drainage, which had flowed north-eastw ...

, a former lake

United States

* Pickering, Missouri *

Pickerington, Ohio Pickerington is a city in Fairfield and Franklin counties in the central region of the U.S. state of Ohio. It was founded in 1815 as Jacksonville, named after Andrew Jackson. Pickerington was known as Jacksonville until 1827, when the citizens p ...

Pickering, Pennsylvania Phoenixville is a borough in Chester County, Pennsylvania, United States. It is located northwest of Philadelphia at the junction of French Creek and the Schuylkill River. It is in the Philadelphia metropolitan area. The population is 18, ...

* Pickering Township, Bottineau County, North Dakota * Mount Pickering, California *

Pickering Creek Pickering Creek is a U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline dataThe National Map accessed April 1, 2011 tributary of the Schuylkill River in Chester County, Pennsylvania. Pickering Creek's source is located i ...

, Pennsylvania, a tributary of the Schuylkill River *

Pickering Passage Pickering Passage is a strait, in the southern end of part of Puget Sound in the U.S. state of Washington. Entirely within Mason County, the Pickering Passage separates Hartstine Island from the mainland, and connects Totten Inlet with the no ...

, Washington, a strait *

Fort Pickering Fort Pickering is a 17th-century historic fort site on Winter Island in Salem, Massachusetts. Fort Pickering operated as a strategic coastal defense and military barracks for Salem Harbor during a variety of periods, serving as a fortification ...

, Massachusetts, a 17th century fort on the National Register of Historic Places *

Fort Pickering (Memphis, Tennessee) Fort Pickering was built in Memphis Tennessee, by the Confederate Army during the American Civil War. It was taken over by the Union Army to provide control of the Mississippi River south of the city. 300px, Fort Pickering Memphis Tennessee ...

, a Confederate fort in the American Civil War

Outer space

* Pickering (lunar crater) * Pickering (Martian crater)

People and fictional characters

* Pickering (surname), a list of people and fictional characters *

Pickering Phipps Pickering Phipps is the name of three related men – father, grandson and great grandson – who were residents of Northampton, England in the 19th and 20th centuries. The first began the Phipps Brewery in Towcester in 1801. The company survives ...

, three related people in England in the 18th to 20th centuries

Schools

Pickering College Pickering College is an independent, co-educational school for children in grades from Junior Kindergarten through grade 12. It is located in Newmarket, Ontario in Canada on a 17-hectare (42 acre) property on Bayview Avenue. The school accepts bot ...

, Newmarket, Ontario, Canada *

Pickering High School (disambiguation) Pickering High School may refer to: * Pickering High School, Ajax, Ontario * Pickering High School (Louisiana) Pickering High School is a public high school located in Leesville, Louisiana Leesville is a city in, and the parish seat of, Ve ...

, several schools in various countries

Sports

Pickering FC Pickering Football Club, commonly known as Pickering FC, is a Canadian semi-professional soccer club based in Pickering, Ontario. The club was founded in 1984 as a youth soccer club and added its semi-professional club in League1 Ontario in 20 ...

, a Canadian soccer team *

Pickering Panthers The Pickering Panthers are a Junior "A" ice hockey team from Pickering, Ontario, Canada. They are a part of North Division of the Ontario Junior Hockey League. History In the summer of 2010, the Panthers accepted a merger with the Ajax Attack. ...

, a Junior "A" ice hockey team from Pickering, Ontario, Canada * Pickering Town F.C., an English football team

Other uses

Pickering's Defense The King's Pawn Game is any chess opening starting with the move: :1. e4 It is the most popular opening move in chess, followed by the Queen's Pawn Game. Details about the move and the game plan White opens with the most popular of the twent ...

, a chess opening * , an American schooner *

Pickering House (disambiguation) Pickering House may refer to: *I. O. Pickering House, Olathe, Kansas *Pickering House (Salem, Massachusetts), NRHP-listed * Pickering House (Victoria, Texas), NRHP-listed *Pickering Farm, Issaquah, Washington See also *Adams-Pickering Block, Bango ...

, several houses *

Pickering Operations Complex The Pickering Operations Complex is a skyscraper at 20 Pickering Street, in Raffles Place in the central business district of Singapore. The tower is situated adjacent to OCBC Centre and One George Street. History Pickering Operations Compl ...

, a skyscraper on Pickering Street in Singapore *

Pickering Interfaces Pickering Interfaces is a test and measurement company headquartered in Clacton-on-Sea, United Kingdom. Pickering designs, manufactures and markets a range of switching, simulation and cabling products in the LXI, PXI, and PCI platforms. These ...

, a British test and measurement company * Pickering and Company, an American phonograph cartridge manufacturer, predecessor of

Stanton Magnetics Stanton Magnetics, doing business as Stanton, is a business unit of inMusic Brands that designs and markets turntables, cartridges, DJ mixers, DJ media players, and DJ controllers. History Stanton Magnetics was founded in 1946 by Norman C ...

* Pickering baronets, two extinct titles, one in the Baronetage of Nova Scotia, the other in the Baronetage of England *

Pickering Medal The Pickering Medal is awarded annually by the Royal Society Te Apārangi to a person or team "who, while in New Zealand, has through design, development or invention performed innovative work the results of which have been significant in their ...

, a New Zealand honour for promoting commercial success