Clarkson's Farm: visiting Diddly Squat and the Farmer's Dog

Clarkson's Farm is filmed on Diddly Squat Farm, Jeremy Clarkson's farm of about 400 hectares at Chadlington, in west Oxfordshire between Chipping Norton and Charlbury. The fields and farm buildings are private and there are no farm tours. You can visit two places: Diddly Squat Farm Shop on the Chipping Norton road, open Tuesday to Sunday from 9.30am to 4.30pm, and the Farmer's Dog, Clarkson's pub on the A40 near Burford, closed on Mondays.

Everything a visitor acts on here, the hours, the parking, the booking rules and the dogs, comes from the shop's and the pub's own websites, read in October 2026. The series facts come from Prime Video (opens in a new tab) and the farming press (opens in a new tab), and the planning story from press reports of the appeal decision. Neither the shop nor the pub publishes a winter timetable, so check both before a trip between November and March.

Where is Clarkson's Farm?

Diddly Squat Farm lies on the high ground around Chadlington, a village above the Evenlode valley, about 4 miles north-west of Charlbury and 4 miles east of Kingham. The shop's postal address says Chipping Norton, but it stands out in the fields on the road between the two, and the parish is Chadlington. Chipping Norton and Chadlington belong to the ironstone and wold country our sister site Banburyshire covers; this page sticks to what a visitor to the farm needs.

The series has run on Prime Video since 2021. It follows Clarkson, his farm manager Kaleb Cooper, his partner Lisa Hogan and a small cast that includes Charlie Ireland and Gerald Cooper through the farming year, and it won the National Television Award for factual entertainment in 2025. The fifth series, eight episodes, came out in three parts between 3 and 17 June 2026. The programme's official Facebook page has confirmed a sixth series, arriving later in the year than usual; it has no release date yet.

What you can see at Diddly Squat Farm Shop

The farm shop is the only part of the farm you can visit. It began, the shop says, as a way to sell an unexpectedly large potato harvest, and it now sells British produce from honey and jam to crisps, beer and clothes, much of it under the Diddly Squat name. Beside it is the Big View Café and a bar, with seats in the lambing barn and outside: food is served until 3pm and the bar stays open until 4.30pm. You do not book. You queue for the shop and, separately, for food.

What you will not see is the farm. There are no tours, and the fields, the yard and the machinery that fill the series are a working farm, not a set, so stay in the public areas: the shop, the lambing barn and the outdoor seating. The shop says Jeremy and Lisa come in when the farm allows, which is not often and never to a timetable. The shop and the café take cards only.

Dogs are welcome on a lead outside and in the lambing barn, but not inside the shop. The shop is on one level with no steps, though some areas are narrow; there are disabled parking spaces with attendants to direct you, and an accessible toilet.

When to go, and the queues

Go at 9.30am, when it opens, from Tuesday to Friday. Weekends and bank holidays are the busiest days (the shop opens on bank holidays but is closed every Monday), and on busy days the shop and food queues may be closed early, so a late arrival can mean no lunch. Allow an hour, or two with lunch.

In past years the shop has closed for part of the winter and reopened in spring: in 2026 it reopened on Wednesday 25 March. Its pages gave no winter closure when we checked in October 2026, so look at the shop's website before you drive out between November and March.

Parking and getting there

Park in the shop's own car park. On busy days an overflow car park opens beside it; in wet weather it turns to mud, the shop advises 4x4s only, and you use it at your own risk because the shop cannot tow or recover cars. Both car parks close at 5pm and no vehicles may stay after that. The shop asks you not to park on the verges.

Parking is the reason the shop has been in the local news. In 2021, after neighbours complained of visitors queuing in their cars for up to two hours on the village roads, Clarkson met villagers in Chadlington's Memorial Hall. In 2023 a planning inspector allowed a temporary extension to the car park, on part of the field next to the shop and until 1 January 2025, but upheld West Oxfordshire District Council's refusal of a restaurant. The temporary permission has since been renewed, and in April 2026 the farm asked the council to extend the time limit on the shop and its car parking by several more years. Chadlington is a village of homes and a school run, so come by bus or train if you can.

Without a car, the X9 between Witney and Chipping Norton, run by Thames Travel about hourly in the daytime, stops outside the shop, by Chadlington. The nearest station is Charlbury, on the Cotswold Line with direct trains from Oxford and London Paddington; from there take a bus from the village or a taxi, and book the taxi ahead, because there are few out here. The address for a satnav is 5-12 Chipping Norton Road, Chipping Norton OX7 3PE.

The Farmer's Dog, Clarkson's pub near Burford

The Farmer's Dog is at Asthall Barrow on the A40 east of Burford, about 12 miles by road from the farm shop, and its renovation was filmed for the fourth series of Clarkson's Farm. It calls itself a pub built to celebrate British farming, and holds to it: the food is from British ingredients, every drink is British, from Hawkstone beer, cider and spirits to Knollbury Fort English wine, and the pub asks that even a birthday cake brought in be made from British produce.

The site opens from Tuesday to Saturday, 9.30am to 11pm, and on Sunday until 10.30pm; the pub itself opens at 11am. It is closed on Mondays, and on 5 November 2026 it closes at 4pm for a ticketed event. To eat in the pub you must book online (opens in a new tab): there is no phone number, and tables are released a month at a time from the start of the previous month and go quickly for weekends. Without a booking, the Farmer's Puppy food truck in the Grand Tour tent serves first come, first served, and there are pizzas from the Farmer's Dough, a grill and garden bars.

On the site the farm shop has a branch beside Hops & Chops, the pub's butcher and bottle shop, so you can buy the Diddly Squat range without the drive to Chadlington. The tent shops open from 9.30am to 7pm from Tuesday to Thursday and on Sunday, and until 8pm on Friday and Saturday, and the farm shop says its pub shop takes cards only. Dogs are welcome, ideally a dog or two each, the pub asks. As for Jeremy, the pub says he may be in: it is his pub, and he does not announce when he drops in.

A quieter pint nearby

The pub fills at weekends. For somewhere calmer, the Three Horseshoes at Asthall, in the village below the A40, is an eighteenth-century pub with rooms, and the Swan at Swinbrook is an inn on the Windrush a little further east, where the walk to Fulbrook and Widford starts. Both are in the Mitfords' valley, which our guide to Swinbrook and Asthall covers, and Burford, with its free Guildenford car park, is the town for both.

Charlbury, Kingham and the Rollright Stones

Charlbury, the nearest station, is a small stone town above the Evenlode and makes the best base for the farm without a car. It has two inns that cook seriously: the Bell, a seventeenth-century coaching inn run by Daylesford with an orchard garden, and the Bull, with a dining room built round an open fire and breakfast for anyone from 8am.

Kingham, about 4 miles west of the shop, has its own station on the same line and the other famous farm shop of these parts: Daylesford, open every day, two miles from Kingham. The Wild Rabbit and the Kingham Plough are the village's pubs, and the flat walk from Kingham across Daylesford's fields to the Evenlode is an hour and a half; walkers report it wet and often flooded in winter.

North of Chipping Norton, the Rollright Stones are three prehistoric monuments on a ridge, open daily for a small fee, and the walk from Salford reaches them across the fields.

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Myths and half-truths

You can look round the farm. You cannot. The shop says plainly (opens in a new tab) that it offers no farm tours, and the land is private.

The pub is at the farm. The Farmer's Dog is a separate site about 12 miles south, on the A40 near Burford. Its address is Asthall Barrow, Burford; it stands in Asthall parish, above the village.

The cast will be there. The shop says Jeremy and Lisa come when they can, the pub that Jeremy may or may not be in, and neither publishes when anyone from the series will appear.

The shop is open every day. It is closed on Mondays, and its car parks shut at 5pm, half an hour after the shop.

Be a good visitor

Chadlington and Asthall are small villages, and their lanes were not built for queues. Park only in the shop's car parks or the pub's, never on verges, in gateways or in the village; keep the dog on a lead near the farm; and come on a weekday or by train and bus if you can. The farm shop and the pub both run on the idea of backing British farming, and the farm around them is someone's work, every day of the year.