Alnwick driving test centre
Roxburgh House, Green Batt, Alnwick, NE66 1JX
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Key facts
- Alnwick's pass rate was 55.5% in 2025/26 from 1,282 tests, 5.5 points above the national average of 50.0%.
- That puts it 1 of 11 centres in North East (North East average 48.4%), one of the higher pass rates in the region, 7.1 points above it.
- Since 2021/22 the pass rate has fallen by 9.6 points, from 65.1% to 55.5%.
- Male candidates passed at 53.6% and female candidates at 58.1%, a gap of 4.5 points.
- On waiting times, learners who took a test in August 2026 had waited a median of 14.7 weeks since booking (longer than the national median of 11.9 weeks); the first week with 10% or more of slots still free was 20 weeks ahead.
- 27.8% of the standard slots in the booking window were still unbooked in August 2026, which usually means a cancellation or new date is realistic here.
One set of traffic lights sits on the whole set of practice loops at Alnwick. Everything else you meet is a give-way line, a roundabout or a pedestrian crossing, and there are 25 give-way junctions to get through. That is what a market town test looks like. The other half of it is speed. About a fifth of the loop length is at national speed limit, so a route that starts on Clayport Street at 30 mph can be out on an open road within a few minutes. Alnwick has the best pass rate of the eleven centres in the North East, though the figure has been falling for several years rather than holding steady.
Drive the Alnwick test routes before test day
5 loops from the centre, 50 km in all, with 13 roundabouts and 111 marked turns. Generated from the road network within 2.5 km of Alnwick; not DVSA’s own routes, but the same roads.
Drive it before test day
Drive all 5 loops around Alnwick from your phone before you ever sit in the car: every roundabout, every junction, in the order you will meet them.
- 5 routes · 50 km · 111 marked turns
- Examiner-style marking on signalling and observation
- Street View tour of each route
- Every roundabout and junction, in the order you'll meet them
- The four test manoeuvres and eight roundabout scenarios, included
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- Route 1 · via Denwick Lane12.8 km loop with 3 roundabouts, 13 right turns, 9 left turns and a stretch of Taylor Drive.12.8 km · 25 turns · 3 roundabouts
- Route 2 · via Weavers Way13.5 km loop with 4 roundabouts, 12 right turns, 8 left turns and a stretch of Canongate.13.5 km · 24 turns · 4 roundabouts
- Route 3 · via South Road8.9 km loop with 4 roundabouts, 7 right turns, 10 left turns and a stretch of Bondgate Without.8.9 km · 21 turns · 4 roundabouts
- Route 4 · via Bondgate Without8.1 km loop with 2 roundabouts, 10 right turns, 9 left turns and a stretch of The Peth.8.1 km · 21 turns · 2 roundabouts
- Route 5 · via Bondgate Without6.3 km loop with 10 right turns, 10 left turns and a stretch of Clayport Street.6.3 km · 20 turns
The same access also opens the four test manoeuvres and eight roundabout scenarios: the two things a route drive cannot teach you.
Two thirds of the loop length is 30 mph, a seventh is 20, and the remaining fifth is national speed limit. That last fifth is what separates Alnwick from a purely urban test. You go from Clayport Street and Bondgate Without, where the limit is 30 and people cross wherever they like, to open road on the B6341 or the B6346 within a couple of minutes, and the examiner is then watching whether you build to a speed that suits the road rather than crawling along at the one you left town with.
Junction work is almost all unsignalled. There are 25 give-way junctions on the loops and exactly one set of traffic lights. Six roundabout locations are named, at Willowburn Avenue, Taylor Drive, St James Estate, Weavers Way, Bondgate Without and South Road, and none of them is a mini-roundabout, so approach speeds are higher than at a town built around painted circles.
The loops range from 6.3 km up to 13.5 km. The shortest stays in the town around Clayport Street and has no roundabout on it at all. The longest goes out through Canongate. The 12.8 km loop along Taylor Drive is the one that mixes both halves of the test, three roundabouts and a run at the national limit in the same circuit.
Three level crossings sit on the loops. Five zebra crossings and six signalled crossings cover the town centre, and with only three traffic calming features you cannot rely on a hump to slow you into them.
Pass rate at Alnwick, 2007/08 to 2025/26
Share of car tests passed each April-to-March year. Dashed line: Great Britain average for 2025/26.
Month by month, 2025/26
By year and gender
| Year | Tests | Pass rate | Male | Female |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025/26 | 1,282 | 55.5% | 53.6% | 58.1% |
| 2024/25 | 1,093 | 51.0% | 47.7% | 56.2% |
| 2023/24 | 1,233 | 55.0% | 50.7% | 62.4% |
| 2022/23 | 968 | 68.7% | 69.8% | 67.5% |
| 2021/22 | 756 | 65.1% | 68.0% | 62.1% |
| 2020/21 | 262 | 69.5% | 64.8% | 75.2% |
| 2019/20 | 685 | 63.6% | 71.4% | 56.7% |
| 2018/19 | 739 | 64.3% | 70.7% | 59.3% |
North East average 48.4% · GB 50%
Waiting time for a test at Alnwick
Median weeks between booking and taking the test, for tests taken each month. Dashed line: GB median for August 2026.
| Month | Median wait | Weeks to free slots | Slots offered | Still free |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 2026 | 14.7 | 20 | 17 | 27.8% |
| Jul 2026 | 14.7 | 17.3 | 30 | 26.4% |
| Jun 2026 | 7.9 | 17 | 46 | 13.9% |
| May 2026 | 12.1 | 18.5 | 35 | 28.2% |
| Apr 2026 | 13.6 | 16.5 | 24 | 28.4% |
| Mar 2026 | 13.3 | 18 | 31 | 29.1% |
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Test day at Alnwick
The centre is in Roxburgh House on Green Batt, a short walk from the middle of Alnwick. Green Batt is a town-centre street, so parking depends on what is free when you arrive. Nothing is published about candidate parking here, which is normal, and the sensible plan is the one most instructors use anyway: drop at the door, park elsewhere, walk back.
DVSA runs car tests here and nothing else. No motorcycle module 2, no ADI part 3. The record does say DVSA will make arrangements for candidates with a disability at this centre, which in practice means ringing ahead rather than raising it on the morning.
The nearest station in our data is Lionheart, about a mile and a half from the centre, so nearly everyone arrives by car.
Waits at Alnwick run longer than the national median and have grown over the past year. A test taken in July had been booked about fourteen and a half weeks earlier, and the first week with a real choice of slots was further out than that again. Book early and keep watching for cancellations. Booking, moving and cancelling is only through GOV.UK.
What DVSA publishes about Alnwick
Taken from the GOV.UK test centre finder, checked 3 September 2026. Where DVSA says nothing, this site says nothing.
- Tests conducted here
- car
- Wheelchair access
- Not published. DVSA says it will make arrangements for candidates with a disability, which is not the same as step-free access. Ring DVSA before the day rather than assuming.
Learner reports from Alnwick
No reports yet for this centre. If you tested here, the first one is yours to write.
What examiners mark most often
DVSA does not publish faults by centre, but it does publish them nationally. These collected the most marks across every car test in Great Britain in 2025/26, and they are the same ones you will be marked on at Alnwick.
- 1Junctions - observation
- 2Mirrors - change direction
- 3Junctions - turning right
- 4Response to signs - traffic lights
- 5Control - steering
- 6Move off - safely
Getting there
Roxburgh House, Green BattAlnwick NE66 1JX
Directions in Google Maps · Check centre notes on GOV.UK
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Questions learners ask about Alnwick
- Is Alnwick an easy test centre?
- By the numbers, yes: 55.5% of car tests were passed there in 2025/26, against 50.0% nationally. Pass rates reflect the local roads and who takes tests there as much as the examiners, so treat it as a guide, not a guarantee.
- How long is the wait for a driving test at Alnwick?
- In August 2026 the median gap between booking and sitting a test at Alnwick was 14.7 weeks, and you had to look about 20 weeks ahead to find a week with at least 10% of slots free. DVSA publishes this monthly; the figure above updates when they do.
- Where is Alnwick driving test centre?
- Alnwick test centre is at Roxburgh House, Green Batt, Alnwick, NE66 1JX. Arrive at least 10 minutes early with your provisional licence; parking rules vary by centre, so check the learner reports below.
- How many driving tests does Alnwick do a year?
- 1,282 car tests were conducted at Alnwick in 2025/26, of which 712 were passed.
Source: DVSA tables DRT122A (pass rates by centre and month) and DRT122F (waiting times and availability), Open Government Licence v3.0. PassRank adds the comparisons and rankings.
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