It was quickly clear this was no ordinary pub visit. After all, most pubs don't have stewards in high-vis directing people to car parks in fields with more cars than you'll find at some festivals. Already excited to visit, this just made even giddier. I was late to the Clarkson's Farm series on Amazon Prime Video and certainly didn't expect to enjoy it as much as I did. After binge-watching most of the first four series I knew I had to visit the famous locations featured in person. A large part of series four was devoted to the opening of The Farmer's Dog, the pub Jeremy Clarkson had long wanted to open. Unfortunately, pesky things like planning rules and buildings on the verge of collapse kept getting in his way. Hopefully, series five, which launched on Tuesday, June 3 on Amazon Prime Video, will show us how things are panning out. Though, if my visit is anything to go by, I can already tell you: business is booming. It's already almost entirely booked up for the rest of June and July. But, almost exactly a year ago, I managed to get a table for Sunday lunch at The Farmer's Dog, about 10 miles south of Clarkson's farm shop, Diddly Squat, on the side of the A40 as it winds through the Oxfordshire countryside. It's about a 90-minute drive from west London or Wales, around three hours from Liverpool, Manchester or Yorkshire, and a little over an hour from Bristol. Is Jeremy Clarkson's pub busy? In the first couple of series of Clarkson's Farm, one thing that really seemed to annoy council officials and some neighbours of his original farm shop was the huge number of people visiting, clogging up the surrounding roads and parking on grass verges. So I was expecting it to be busy. But I wasn't expecting this.
I ate lunch in Jeremy Clarkson's pub — two words sum it up
What I found at The Farmer's Dog pub in Oxfordshire, star of the Amazon Prime Video show Clarkson's Farm, was barely believable














