This travel piece rounds up some of England's most celebrated farm shops, from grand countryside emporiums to smaller family-run operations, highlighting spots that offer far more than the average weekly grocery run. It matters to shoppers seeking locally sourced food, homemade treats and destinations worth a special trip, particularly as farm shops have grown in popularity, boosted in part by celebrity ventures such as Jeremy Clarkson's Amazon Prime series.

Featured venues include Daylesford Organic in the Cotswolds, dubbed a "rural Harrods Food Hall", and Clarkson's own Diddly Squat Farm Shop nearby. Others named include Alder Carr in Suffolk with its 60-plus cheeses, Devon's Strawberry Fields (rated best UK farm shop by the Camping and Caravanning Club), Hinchliffe's in West Yorkshire (dating to 1929 and claiming to be Britain's oldest), Doddington Hall in Lincolnshire, The Garlic Farm Shop on the Isle of Wight, and Somerset's Farm Shop, which also has a Mayfair, London branch.