'I queued for an hour to visit Clarkson's farm shop - the burger van was better'

Thousands of people flocked to take a look inside Jeremy Clarkson's Diddly Squat Farm Shop when it reopened last month.

It coincided with the release of the second season of his Amazon Prime TV show Clarkson's Farm, which subsequently became one of the most watched shows in the UK.

Having seen the farm shop's journey on the show from when it was opened in 2020, The Mirror's Ariane Sohrabi-Shiraz was intrigued to see what it looked like now and what was drawing so many people to the Cotswolds destination. Here's what she made of the trip...

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I travelled to the Diddly Squat Farm Shop, which is located in Chipping Norton on the edge of the farm Clarkson himself owns, on a Thursday morning hoping to beat the afternoon rush. Travelling by taxi from Kingham Station, I passed an already full car park, with several vehicles forced to park on the road. According to the driver it's always busy in these parts – particularly on Saturdays.

At 10.30am on a Thursday I didn't expect there already to be a queue across the field – but it appears I wasn't the only one who wanted to see what the farm shop had to offer. I did the same ritual as everyone else – posed for a picture in front of the Diddly Squat sign before joining the back of the queue, which was getting longer by the minute as more people started to arrive.

One thing I wasn't prepared for was how slow-moving the queue would be. Clarkson's farm itself spans 1,000 ares, but the shop is tiny, so it takes a long time to get to the front.

In true Clarkson-fashion, one of the signs I shuffled past painfully slowly said: "I'm from Yorkshire and therefore don't like spending money. That's why the Diddly Squat Farm