Sideway Farm, Stoke-on-Trent

In July 2005, Oxford Archaeology (OA) carried out an archaeological excavation at Sideway Farm, Stoke on Trent, Staffordshire (NGR: SJ 879 429). Required as a condition of the planning permission for a proposed waste treatment facility, the work was commissioned by CgMs on behalf of
Mouchel Parkman Limited to assess and characterise the buried remains of Sideway Farm and to investigate the potential for earlier remains which may predate the farm. The excavation revealed the foundations of the
former farmhouse and buildings associated with Sideway Farm, and evidence of landscape features including two former hedge lines and the course of a channel