Residents of a historic town near where Glastonbury Festival takes place are bracing for an influx of revellers who mistakenly turn up there every year.
David MacGeoch, vicar of Glastonbury, said he is always amused to find unwitting Glastonbury Festival revellers "laden with tents, boots and rucksacks" arriving in the town.
The festival actually takes place in Pilton, which is located nine miles east of the historic town, but every year a small number of people arrive in the town, reports Somerset Live.
Mr MacGeoch lives in Glastonbury and has explained how he often helps to direct lost revellers to the festival site.
Speaking during a special BBC Radio 4 broadcast from St John's Church in Glastonbury on Sunday, he said: "This Wednesday will be no exception to what I see every year at the start of Glastonbury Festival.
"Out of my window, I watch a number of parents in their cars, dropping off their youngsters laden with tents, boots and rucksacks, and as I walk down the roadside, an excitable young person will ask 'which way to the festival?'
"I should say that at the same time, their family have now driven off. With a smile on my face, I say it's nine miles that way and it's on Worthy Farm in a little village called Pilton.
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"You can see the dismay on their faces. But they do cheer up when I direct them to the nearest bus stop."
The first ever music festival at Worthy Farm was held in 1970 and was actually called Pop, Folk and Blues festival, but with just 2,500 attendees it was far cry from the festival today.
It was held after founder Michael Eavis was inspired by the Bath Festival of Blues and Progressive Music.
It was only the following year that the festival adopted the moniker "Glastonbury" - calling itself Glastonbury Fair. It was the year that introduced the Pyramid Stage, which was built on a ley line between Glastonbury and Stonehenge, but it was still a very small-scale event relative to its size today, with just 12,000 attendees.
After an eight-year gap - during which people still turned up at Worthy Farm and organised their own gatherings - the festival returned in 1979 with the slightly tweaked name of Glastonbury Fayre.
The roots of the modern-day festival were delivered on a miniature scale, with fairground rides, cinema tents, welfare services and a newsletter printed on-site.
In 1981 the event was put on again with the name Glastonbury CND Festival as Michael Eavis became increasingly more involved with the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament.
It retained the same name in 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986 and 1987, but throughout those years there were ongoing battles between Michael Eavis and Mendip District Council as the size of the event grew and the number attendees gradually increased to 60,000 people.
In 1989, after a year off, the event returned as Glastonbury Festival, as it is still known today. After a number of run-ins with the council, Mr Eavis invited the police into the organisation and planning of the event for the first time.
It is not known why the festival was originally named after a town nine miles away. It is thought that it may have been a marketing ploy to draw on the historical mysticism and folklore of the town of Glastonbury, with its iconic Tor, Abbey ruins and tales linking the town to Jesus, Joseph of Arimathea and King Arthur.
