CRAVEN and the last ever Top Gear to feature Jeremy Clarkson will be forever linked following Sunday's screening of the missing Broughton Hall episode.

Clarkson, James May and Richard Hammond were seen in the show climax driving cross country in a race to be the first to reach the stately home.

Dressed in dinner jackets, they tackled fields of sheep, steep inclines, muddy tracks and bogs.

Clarkson, in an adapted Vauxhall Frontera, demolished a dry stone wall and ended up in front of the hall, stuck in the lake, and up to his knees in mud.

Hammond, who had confused another building on the estate for the hall, was the last to arrive and paid the forfeit of giving a speech to assembled guests at the Carbon Management and Sustainability Trust dinner.

Roger Tempest, chairman of the Broughton Hall estate, said it had been a pleasure.

He added: "We are so proud to have been involved with the last scene on the last Top Gear, and the land healed very quickly.

"We loved having them and what was not mentioned was the evening also raised £4,000 for the Mother Theresa charity that provides for the homeless thanks to them."

He added the estate had received lots of good feedback following the screening.

"We have had a lot of response and lots of comments on social media," he said.

Sunday's finale was seen by 5.3 million viewers and immediately afterwards, Clarkson took to twitter to say he was 'sad and sorry it's ended like this'.

It had been immediately following filming for the episode in March – one of just two of the series not seen – that Clarkson had been involved in the 'fracas' with a producer that had led to his eventual sacking from the BBC.

The series has been nominated for best entertainment show at the 2015 TV Choice Awards.

LandRover Experience has just opened at Broughton Hall, following a more than £1 million investment. Coniston Hotel, where the franchise was based for 13 years, has invested in its own fleet of vehicles and set up its own 4x4 driving experience.