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Arun Lal & Libby McBride

Inside Swingfields as hundreds of randy revellers pitch up at swingers festival

Hundreds of randy festival-goers are erecting their tents in a sleepy English village ahead of this year's Swingfield - Europe's biggest swingers party.

The event, with large sex hammocks and Wild West themed nights, has come to the UK again for three days as raunchy revellers get into the swing of things.

Swingfields' location for this year’s “Aurora” event, which is expected to attract up to 700 people, has now been revealed, with handwritten "SF this way" signs being spotted around Malvern, Worcs.

Drone shots of the site for this year's Swingfields (Tristan Potter / SWNS)
The site is near the Three Counties Showground (Tristan Potter / SWNS)

The site is a closely-guarded secret and ticket holders who pay £170 for couples are only told 48 hours before the festival gets underway.

But drone pictures of the field near the Three Counties Showground - opened by the Queen in 1958 - show a red double-decker party bus and gazebo covering several double-beds.

As the temperature inside and outside the tents rocket - organisers will be providing free sun cream to stop revellers getting burnt in the sun.

A four-poster bed at last year's festival (SWNS.com)

Large sex hammocks, big enough for several people to swing on, have been placed in the centre of the site for attendees to relax on.

Other photos show four poster beds dotted around the site as well as mysterious tents and marquees in the corners of the field.

Paddling pools have also been placed around the festival with a line of chairs set up nearby so that crowds can watch others make a splash.

The site features tents and 'sex hammocks' (Tristan Potter / SWNS)

On Friday night, partygoers will be encouraged to dress up as cowboys in a “raucous Wild West” themed night.

The official Swingfields website states: "This three-day event will be working alongside ALL lifestyle groups, including LGBT communities, to ensure we deliver a fun and entertaining event for all.

"We have luxury showers and toilets available, and for those self catering this year we also have washing up facilities.”

Roadsigns have given away the location of the sex festival (SWNS.com)

Organisers are also offering glamping pods complete with bedding included to allow revellers to “just turn up and relax.”

Residents in the area say they are happy for the sex festival to go ahead as long as the revellers don't leave the compound.

Sylvia Hartley, 40, said: “I’m not bothered what they do inside the festival as long as they don’t leave it but I suppose, why would they?

“The festival was here last year and no one seemed to have any problems. It’s just people having sex in the open air.

There are paddling pools to cool off in - and even viewing chairs (SWNS.com)
A previous Swingfields festival in the Forest of Dean (SWNS)

“There are far more unhealthy pursuits people can do. If I wasn’t in a committed relationship I’d be tempted to go along myself.”

Last year's Swingfields, which was also held in Malvern, included an 'adventure tent,' kinky entertainment and medieval stocks.

Malvern, which has a population of around 30,000, is a historic conservation area - archaeologists think Bronze Age people settled there around 1000BC.

Medieval stocks at the secret festival site last year (SWNS.com)
Even revellers were none-the-wiser as to where the swinging festival was being held - they were notified by email just 48 hours prior the action kicking off (SWNS.com)

In the 11th century, Benedictine monks established a priory at the foot of highest peak of the Malvern Hills, and the town was born.

Another local, Marjorie Stapleton, 87, was less pleased to see the festival pitch up in town.

"It is slightly embarrassing and in just one year we have begun to get a reputation," Mrs Stapleton told Mail Online.

"It's unappealing. They are not young people, they are middle-aged with big tummies. It's slightly dreadful and there is something a bit frightening about it," she continued.

Swingfields was launched in 2013 and was originally designed to offer a safe and secure event for those in the lifestyle, according to its website.

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