Thousands struggle to exit the Glastonbury mudbath

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Tractors helped tow vehicles out of the boggy car parks, but even then drivers faced the challenge of negotiating their way out of narrow gates as their cars slid in the thick mud.

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Stuck in the mud: This group of revellers get a sinking feeling

The end: A solitary couple are possibly the last revellers to leave Glastonbury

Cars queue to leave - eight hour tailbacks are expected on roads around the site

Long tailbacks formed in and around the festival site in Pilton, Somerset, as tens of thousands made their way home after three days of music and mayhem.

Avon and Somerset Police meanwhile said crime was down on 2005, with 297 recorded this year compared to 328 for the previous festival. Officers made 183 arrests, mainly for drug offences.

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The long trudge home: Some of these festival-goers might just be looking forward to a hot bath

Young and old, there was no escape from the weather

Queues snake back for hundreds of metres at the exit gates

Superintendent Adrian Coombs, who led the planning for this year's event, said: "We thought it would be tough to beat 2005's reduction, but as the thousands of people go home, it is the safest ever festival.

"The weather has been a challenge for all concerned, but we prepare for bad conditions in the planning for the event and this has certainly paid off.

"We are now involved in the considerable operation to get people off the site and away from the area.

"Festival car parks are proving difficult to get away from and the roads are inevitably congested, but we would ask drivers to be patient."

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Treading water at Glastonbury

Heading back: Revellers exit the Somerset site

The clean-up starts here: Cleaners will have their hands full in what is set to be a five-week clean-up operation