A Dorset student has amassed millions of views for a video showing him arriving at his school prom in a tractor convoy.

Lewis Softley, 15, posted a video to TikTok of him and his friends arriving at Kingston Maurward College near Dorchester for the Thomas Hardye School prom on July 4.

The teenager, from Milton Abbas, who is a young farmer in Dorset, was given the option of turning up in a Porsche sports car but chose to stick with a more familiar vehicle.

He posts regular TikTok videos of his daily chores on the dairy farm he works at in Cheselbourne, near Dorchester.

His video, posted a week ago to the social media platform, has amassed more than 11 million views and 10,000 comments. 

Kitted out with lights, the tractor convoy set off from Dorchester Tesco on its way to Kingston Maurward College, where the school's prom was held.

Speaking to the Dorset Echo, Lewis, who was joined in the convoy by friends Freddie Coward and Stan Souttar, said he was not expecting the video to do quite as well.

"I played football after posting it and after the game I checked my phone and it was just flooded with notifications," he said.

"It all happened really quickly. I was just shocked and the views just kept going up.

"I wanted to go in something different as I have always been different at school and I thought that would be the best way to leave."

Lewis added that he is 'always posting videos' to give people a glimpse of life in the countryside.

After leaving school, he is going to Bicton College to study agriculture and has long-term plans to do farming in Australia and New Zealand.

@lewis.agri kinda way to finish school #prom2k23 #prom #tractorstoprom #agriculture #agrilads #memories #foryoupage ♬ original sound - Stan :)

Lewis' mum Laurie said that her son's page has become popular as people are interested in what goes into being a farmer.

He rented the John Deere tractor from the Lukins family from Blandford, where his mum also has a cafe called LO's Coffee Shop. 

"I said [to Lewis] that this could be the start of something if you are getting all of these followers for your farming," Laurie said.

"He arrived at the prom with his three friends and they all had a tractor each. They wanted to do something a bit different.

"My other half works for a Porsche specialist and he said that he could have had a Porsche of his choice, but he wanted to go in a tractor.

"They were loving it and had all the lights and a lot of noise. It has all gone a bit crazy."

She explained how farming does not run in the family and that her son found a passion for it on his own.

"He just found it himself - normally with young farmers it runs through generations," Laurie said.

"He found a love for it about a year ago, there is nothing in our history, he just found it himself."