MORRIS PLAINS - John Titterton of Morris Plains, a Navy veteran, received the Friend of Education Award from the Morris Plains School District at the district s volleyball fundraiser on Friday,
The ancient house still stands. The Old Bank is still there as a rough track though such was the infilling following the construction of the replacement that it has largely disappeared.
The river is called Sandys Cut . Sir Myles Sandys was a turbulent landowner who inherited lands in the fens following the dissolution of the monasteries.
Adelaide Road and rail bridge
- Credit: Mike Petty
He proposed a drainage scheme, pre Vermuyden, that was denounced as a fraud, but went on to become one of the adventurers who put up the funding for the first drainage scheme that resulted in the Old Bedford River.