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Driving test centres in Northamptonshire
Every DVSA practical test centre in Northamptonshire, with a guide to the road types each one's routes use. 2 centres covered, including Northampton, Wellingborough.
All 2 centres in Northamptonshire
How Northamptonshire test routes differ from each other
Routes out of Northamptonshire's 2 centres between them cover roundabouts, dual carriageway, estate roads, market-town roads and edge-of-town dual carriageway. That spread is why two centres fifteen miles apart can feel like different tests.
Anyone selling you "the Northamptonshire test route" is selling a guess — the DVSA withdrew published routes in 2010. What is knowable is the road types, starting with roundabouts, and those are what our instructors drill.
Centre by centre — Northampton: roundabouts, dual carriageway and estate roads. Multi-lane roundabouts feature heavily.. Wellingborough: market-town roads, roundabouts and edge-of-town dual carriageway. Routes leave the built-up area quickly, so speed adjustment between limits is heavily assessed..
Northamptonshire: the things that catch learners out
Multi-lane roundabouts feature heavily., Routes leave the built-up area quickly, so speed adjustment between limits is heavily assessed., Sat-nav sections usually run on the wider through-routes rather than the back streets. and If your lessons have been in a different part of Northamptonshire, plan at least a couple of sessions on these roads before the test.. None of that is a route, and none of it is a guarantee — it is what comes back from instructors teaching these centres week in, week out.
Preparing for a test in Northamptonshire
Practice on the real roads
Your last sessions before the test are worked around your booked centre, not generic estate roads.
A marked mock test
Run the way an examiner runs it, with a written debrief of every fault.
All four manoeuvres
Practised in the kind of locations examiners in this area actually use.
Test-day rehearsal
Paperwork, show me / tell me and the independent drive, covered in advance.
Northamptonshire test centre FAQs
How many driving test centres are there in Northamptonshire?
We cover 2 DVSA practical test centres in Northamptonshire: Northampton, Wellingborough. Each has its own page setting out the road types local routes use and the faults learners most often lose marks on there.
Which Northamptonshire test centre should I book?
Book the centre whose roads you can realistically practise on before test day. Pass rates get quoted a lot, but a centre 30 miles away with a higher published rate is worse value than the one your instructor teaches around every week. If you are unsure, tell us your postcode and we will say which centre most of our learners in your area use.
Do you have instructors near every centre in Northamptonshire?
We cover 1 town in Northamptonshire — Northampton — plus the surrounding villages. Put your postcode into the search and we will tell you honestly whether an instructor can reach you.
What does a course cost?
Our rate is the same everywhere in the UK: £61.23 an hour, so a 20 hour intensive course is £1,224.55. The DVSA test fee is paid separately to the government.
Not sure how many hours you need?
Answer four quick questions and we will recommend a course based on your experience, not a sales target.