The trials, tribulations and fun that many of us have enjoyed on the TV series Clarkson’s Farm come to life when you visit their patch of the beautiful Cotswolds. A thousand acres of Clarkson near Chadlington, thirty minutes from The Chestnuts.
Clarkson’s farm experience has succeeded in going far beyond agriculture and his empire now embodies a rich farm to table mantra built around with Jeremy’s wit and determination. 

The farm shop sprang into life in 2020, when Jeremy with the help of girlfriend Lisa went into rural retailing. The farm shop providing locally sourced goods from Clarkson’s own land and neighbouring Cotswold producers. All with Jeremy’s twist on marketing – from Bee Juice to Cow Juice, (honey and milk). It was staggeringly popular from the start. 

The farm shop opens every Tuesday to Sunday 9.30 – 16.30 throughout most of the year with a winter closure. The shop is not huge, so you will almost certainly have to queue to take a look round and sometimes the wait is long. But you can always have a coffee in the lambing barn behind the shop, known as ‘The Big View Café’. You can order food from a van and drinks from the barn. 
Skip forward to 2024 and Jeremy buys a pub and renames it The Farmers Dog. 

The pub is about 12 miles from the farm shop. British-only produce menu, featuring hearty dishes like steak pie, ham hock terrine, rhubarb crumble, changed seasonally and all washed down with Hawkstone beer and cider—brewed from barley grown at his farm. Drink Cotswold wines too.

The Farmers Dog has limited seating and so booking ahead is advisable but if you cant get into the pub go outside to The Farmers Puppy – an outdoor kitchen and bar and enjoy the huge beer garden with stunning views over the Windrush valley.
Obviously if you want to take home a memento you can browse in The Grand Tour tent for a T-shirt, book, chilli jam or other edible merchandise. There is also a dedicated butchers Hops and Chops and a bottle shop selling all things Hawkstone.

The whole site is shut on Mondays. The site does get very busy but there is plenty of parking, especially across the road from the pub where another enterprising farmer has opened up his field for parking.
From our holiday cottages both venues are easily accessed. It is about a 20 minute drive to Diddly Squat Farm from our cottages. But The Farmers Dog Pub is just a five minute drive from The Chestnuts. You could even walk. And if you want the taste of Jeremy’s beer, Hawkstone is sold at our local  The Rose and Crown pub, in Shilton.