They're getting diddly squat today! Jeremy Clarkson fans are turned away from Cotswolds farm after crowds descend on shop following release of third season of Amazon show

Hundreds of Jeremy Clarkson fans formed long snaking queues at Diddly Squat Farm yesterday with some people being turned away. 

A police van was since parked up outside the idyllic Cotswolds farm amid some vehicles being told they wouldn't be able to enter an already packed car park. 

It was the busiest the farm had been since last summer and comes following the new release of the third season of Clarkson's Farm dropped on Amazon Prime. 

Huge crowds swarmed to Oxfordshire as queues snaked around the Diddly Squat Farm shop and car park, while others waited to get a taste of Jeremy's Hawkstone lager in the sunshine on a bank holiday weekend.   

The car park was declared full by 1pm with many vehicles being turned away.

Avid watchers of the show descended on the former Top Gear star's newest venture from the United States, Wales and Germany to celebrate the new release.

Anna, Sarah and Remi, originally from Minnesota, have travelled to Clarkson's Diddly Squat Farm for Remi's birthday.

One of the girls joked: 'We got in line about ten minutes ago. We expect to get into an episode of the show while we're in the queue.'

A police van was seen parked close to the car park's entrance on the remarkably busy day.

Clarkson said on X: 'Thank you all for sending such kind words about Clarkson's Farm 3.

'I know it's tough to watch in places but that's farming sometimes: brutal.'

Clarkson's Farm fans have been thrilled by the long-awaited return of the Amazon hit series after it finally aired on the streaming service on Friday.

The popular farming show sees the former Top Gear and Grand Tour presenter, 64, wrestle with the daily challenges of running his 1,000 acre Diddly Squat Farm.

Series one and two, which released in June 2021 and February 2023, respectively, were are an instant hit with audiences across the UK, who were delighted by the array of quirky characters and comical calamities throughout.

And series three has continued its hot steak, delivering on a mixture of humour and heartbreak as Jeremy and the gang continue in their quest to keep the farm afloat. 

Some fans have been left in floods of tears with some claiming they were not 'emotionally prepared' for the new series. 

During the series, Jeremy introduced pigs to the farm in a bid to make some money off of them, but in heartbreaking scenes in the fourth episode, several of the piglets ended up crushed by their own mother, and one of the farm's sows became ill.

Sharing their thoughts on X (formerly known as Twitter) viewers spoke of the emotional rollercoaster and warned others to 'get the tissues ready.'

'I never thought Clarkson’s Farm show would be making me cry…Jesus Christ man.'

'@JeremyClarkson just love Clarkson’s Farm. Wish there was more episodes to watch. Also shed a tear along with you and Lisa. I hope this show runs for many many more seasons. Something to laugh, cry and learn so much about the challenges of our farmers.'

'Not me crying over a pig.'

'I was not emotionally prepared for season 3 of #ClarksonsFarm. The last episode broke me. Like, nose running kind of ugly crying broken.'

Jeremy  and his partner Lisa Hogan struggle with losing the baby piglets and in one scene he is seen consoling an emotional Lisa as she breaks down in tears after hearing the tragic news.

Talking about the scenes, Lisa explained: 'It was heart-breaking. Jeremy's always loved pigs, I didn’t think I’d be that enamoured by pigs but I did get really close to them as people will see. Farming’s just sad.'

She continued: 'The animals become your friends and you're isolated – there are certain farms that are really isolated – and the animals become your family. When they become unwell, you're losing members of your animal family.

'If that's how sad we can get in front of a TV crew, imagine the farmers that are alone and having to do it with nobody around them when they’re losing animal after animal. It’s so difficult.

'Every day it's emotional whether it's really happy because the weather is perfect and you can get on with the job at hand or it’s miserable if it’s raining the crops are failing and you can’t do a thing.

'It’s very difficult to be unemotional about it. So, yes, I don’t want to go against what he’s said but I definitely think he’s becoming more a man of the land than a man of the road.'

Jeremy also gets tearful in an earlier episode when he is forced to send his beloved 'pet' cow Pepper to the abattoir. 

He reveals in the first episode of the new series he can no longer afford to keep all of his cows after West Oxfordshire District Council tells him has to close down his newly opened restaurant. 

As he watches the cows being loaded up onto the lorry, Jeremy turns to his land agent and advisor for a heart-to-heart. 

'I'm finding today really quite sad as for the last year I've been opening the windows, opening the curtains in the morning and there are the cows. And I love that,' Jeremy says.

'Making cow noises. It just cheers my heart every morning to see them.'

His worries then turn to the calves as he affectionately asks whether they will be able to sleep tonight.

But Kaleb Cooper, 25, then tells Jeremy it is he who won't be sleeping as they 'will be calling all night long'.

Clearly anxious about Pepper's future, Charlie gives Jeremy a word of warning when he asks what will happen to her.

'I wouldn't ask too many questions about Pepper,' Charlie says. 'Don't ask questions you don't want to know the answers to.'

There is an awkward moment of silence as Jeremy stares and blinks before turning away and letting out a big audible sigh and muttering: 'Oh Christ.'

Clarkson's Farm season 3, part 1 is available to stream on Amazon Prime now. Part 2 is released on May 10.