Villagers in Chitterne have told of their anger at the thousands of revellers who poured into the area for a rave on Saturday night.

Today they will begin cleaning up discarded bottles, cans, wrappers and drug paraphanalia left by the estimated 4,000 people who descended on Quebec Farm.

Ellie Timoney, who lives with husband James near the village green, told how they were woken at 12.30 on Sunday morning by the revellers congregating in their cars.

"There were about 20 cars just revving their engines and bibbing their horns.

"By about 1.30am there was total commotion out there. It seemed that they had all been contacted by text and told to head into the village and wait for another text. But there is no coverage here so they were left a bit lost."

Her husband James went out to move the couple's cars from the front of their house.

"We were a bit worried," she said "we run a brewery from the back of the house and our van was parked in front."

Shortly after 1.30pm the revellers moved off to Quebec Farm. "They just left the cars wherever they had stopped. Some of them are still there."

She said the young people had come from all over the country. "I was told there were people from Lancashire there. They all seemed very pleasant and were apologetic about the disruption."

Yesterday Mrs Timoney, a supply teacher at Warminster Prep School, saw for herself the aftermath of the rave.

"There are bottles and cans scattered all across the hedgerows. I found some strange capsules as well. I am a teacher and even I don't know what they are.

"There is going to be an enormous clean-up of all the rubbish."