A PROPERTY website has seen a spike in searches for homes near Jeremy Clarkson’s new pub.

The pub, located close to Burford in Oxfordshire, reopened to the public on August 23 after being renamed The Farmer’s Dog.

Hundreds of people waited for the doors to open on the first day of trading.

Rightmove said that August 24, the day after the pub’s opening, saw the highest number of searches for homes for sale in Burford in more than a year.

Across the pub’s first bank holiday weekend, the number of searches for homes for sale in Burford was 63 per cent higher than the same period the year before, the website said.

The average asking price in the Burford postcode area is £537,827.

Jeremy recently described the impact of his new pub on British farming as a “tiny pinprick”, but added: “If everyone does it, if all the farmers get together and buy a pub - as you can get a pub for chicken feed these days - it might work.”

It is not the first time that Clarkson’s ventures appear to have inspired property searches.

The launch of series one and two of Prime show Clarkson’s Farm led to a spike in searches for the Oxfordshire village of Chadlington in the area where the programme is set, Rightmove said.

“The Cotswolds will always inspire people to search and explore what living in one of its many areas of beauties could be like, and Jeremy Clarkson’s ventures have added further intrigue,” said Tim Bannister, Rightmove property expert.