Jeremy Clarkson has spoken out on rumours he’ll move away from his Oxfordshire farm to Wales, after his former Top Gear co-star Richard Hammond relocated to Abergavenny
Richard Hammond’s move to a six-bedroom Georgian manor house in Abergavenny, Wales, has reportedly left some locals “agitated” amid fears that his former Grand Tour co-presenter Jeremy Clarkson could follow him there, potentially leaving his celebrated farm behind.
Jeremy is currently based in Oxfordshire, where he runs Diddly Squat Farm in Chadlington and The Farmer’s Dog pub in Asthall. However, the Abergavenny Chronicle has reported that some Welsh residents are concerned that once the farming celebrity “gets wind of just how lovely Abergavenny and its wider environs are” from Richard, he might be tempted to snap up a property in the area.
A spokesperson for Not In Our Backyard (NOB) commented: “Apart from the occasional sighting in the frozen aisle at the local supermarket, Mr Hammond has kept a very low profile.
“Unfortunately, the same cannot be said of Mr Clarkson. Since he has set up camp at Diddly Squat Farm, Chipping Norton has turned into an absolute circus.”
Nevertheless, the Clarkson’s Farm host has moved to quash the rumours in his latest newspaper column, taking a characteristically sharp swipe at his former Top Gear co-star’s well-documented accident-prone reputation in the process.
Writing in The Sun, Jeremy said: “Residents in the pretty Welsh town of Abergavenny said this week that after Richard Hammond bought a house in the area, they were ‘fearful’ that I’d do the same thing.
“Well relax, boyos, because why would I want to live near Richard Hammond?
“The roads are dangerous enough as it is without having to worry about him coming round the corner, on fire and on his roof.”
The dig references Richard enduring multiple severe car accidents while filming for both Top Gear and The Grand Tour, which he appeared in alongside Jeremy and James May, including a life-threatening crash while driving a Vampire Dragster in 2006.
Though the threesome mutually chose to conclude their profitable TV partnership, which lasted 22 years, back in 2024, they remain friends and champion each other’s individual ventures.
Richard recently spoke about their present relationship, telling the Oxford Mail: “We still talk. We always used to be asked that a lot, but we were together so much filming that the only way to spend more time together would have been to marry one another, really.
“We had time to go home, unpack, catch up, remember where you lived, and we were all together again, so we never got into the habit of massively socialising together.
“We do as we’ll meet up at parties and events and always shall, obviously, as you don’t spend nearly 25 years working with people and not become friends.”
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