Dozens of people queued up today (August 23) to be the first inside Jeremy Clarkson’s new pub ahead of its opening - with one couple queueing for four hours. 

The pub in Asthall, near Burford in Oxfordshire, re-opened to the public at noon after being renamed The Farmer’s Dog.

The former Top Gear presenter revealed earlier this year he paid “less than £1 million” for the pub, then known as The Windmill.

Alongside partner Lisa Hogan and fellow Clarkson's Farm stars Kaleb Cooper, Gerald Cooper and Charlie Ireland, he welcomed in the crowds.

At the front of the queue were Lauren Hanly and Blake Jones, who had travelled from Gloucester, and had arrived shortly before 8am.

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Ms Hanly said they wanted to sample the food having previously visited Clarkson’s other businesses, the Diddly Squat farm shop and Hawkstone Brewery, which features in his hit Amazon series Clarkson’s Farm.

“We got here just before 8am. We were surprised to be at the front. We thought it would be busier earlier but then the gates weren’t opening until 7.30am,” she said.

“We have looked at the menu, but we are not sure what we will go for yet. I think it depends on how many pints I have.

“Having Jeremy Clarkson’s name on it, it is always going to do well. It is a destination site and people will come from all over, as well as the local community.

“We went to the Diddly Squat farm shop and the Hawkstone brewery and Jeremy Clarkson was there filming.”

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Mr Jones added: “We did think about queuing overnight. We left about 7.30am and there were no queues or traffic and we went straight in.”

Clarkson arrived in his car at around 10.40am and drove into the rear car park before re-appearing to carry a box into the pub.

A marquee was erected within the grounds of the five-acre site ahead of the opening.

He described getting ready for the opening as “terribly stressful”.

He said: "here’s just so many things about running a pub you don’t think about.

“Yesterday we had the soft opening and someone’s managed to smash the lavatory door.

“When you go to a festival and go in the bogs, you think, does your bathroom at home look like this? How can you break a bathroom door?”

Clarkson has faced pushback over the years from locals in the West Oxfordshire area when he has tried to expand his Diddly Squat farm project.