Fact of the day

The man who reputedly killed the last bear in England is buried in Radnage, 20 yards to the left of the church door. His gravestone is denoted by a man hunting a bear with a bow and arrow.

http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=radnage&sll=53.800651,-4.064941&sspn=20.909591,57.084961&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Radnage,+High+Wycombe,+Buckinghamshire,+United+Kingdom&ll=51.663372,-0.860066&spn=0.021349,0.055747&z=15

I was trying to find information about the place below it, called, The City. How does some little village out in the middle of nowhere get called The City? Anyone?

For much the same reason that in the North East of England, not far from Durham, is a village called 'Pity Me'. I swear. You would if you knew somebody from there. England and self-deprecation are as natural bedfellows as The Two Ronnies.