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Borehamwood driving test centre

DVSA name: Borehamwood (London) · Unit 1 Stirling Court,, Stirling Way, Borehamwood, WD6 2BT

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Pass rate 2025/26
50.8%
GB 50.0% · East of England 51.4%
Median wait, Aug 2026
10.9weeks
Free slots 24 weeks ahead
Tests a year
7,195
3,652 passed

Key facts

  • Borehamwood's pass rate was 50.8% in 2025/26 from 7,195 tests, in line with the national average of 50.0%.
  • That puts it 11 of 24 centres in East of England (East of England average 51.4%), a mid-table pass rates in the region.
  • The rate has been stable since 2021/22, moving between 46.8% (2024/25) and 52.1% (2021/22).
  • On waiting times, learners who took a test in August 2026 had waited a median of 10.9 weeks since booking; the first week with 10% or more of slots still free was 24 weeks ahead.
  • 30.2% 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.

Twenty-nine mini-roundabouts are mapped within two and a half kilometres of the Borehamwood centre. That is a lot for a town this size, and it shapes the whole test. Add the bigger ones on Elstree Way, Ripon Way and Barnet Lane and a route rarely runs far without an entry decision to make. Otherwise this is a straightforward suburban test: more than eight in ten of the roads mapped around the centre carry a 30 mph limit, with a little 40 and 50 out towards the bypass. The practice loops on this page are short, seven to eleven kilometres, so the pace picks up early and stays there. The pass rate is about the national average and the wait has come down over the past year.

Drive the Borehamwood test routes before test day

5 loops from the centre, 42 km in all, with 32 roundabouts and 101 marked turns. Generated from the road network within 2.5 km of Borehamwood; not DVSA’s own routes, but the same roads.

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Drive all 5 loops around Borehamwood from your phone before you ever sit in the car: every roundabout, every junction, in the order you will meet them.

  • 5 routes · 42 km · 101 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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  1. Route 1 · via Rowley Lane
    10.8 km loop with 8 roundabouts, 7 right turns, 8 left turns and a stretch of Barnet Road.
    10.8 km · 23 turns · 8 roundabouts
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  2. Route 2 · via Barnet Road
    6.9 km loop with 6 roundabouts, 9 right turns, 3 left turns and a stretch of Barnet Lane.
    6.9 km · 18 turns · 6 roundabouts
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  3. Route 3 · via Rowley Lane
    7.8 km loop with 5 roundabouts, 8 right turns, 7 left turns and a stretch of Barnet Road.
    7.8 km · 20 turns · 5 roundabouts
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  4. Route 4 · via Barnet Bypass
    9.0 km loop with 7 roundabouts, 7 right turns, 7 left turns and a stretch of Rowley Lane.
    9.0 km · 21 turns · 7 roundabouts
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  5. Route 5 · via Barnet Bypass
    7.4 km loop with 6 roundabouts, 5 right turns, 8 left turns and a stretch of Barnet Road.
    7.4 km · 19 turns · 6 roundabouts
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The same access also opens the four test manoeuvres and eight roundabout scenarios: the two things a route drive cannot teach you.

Barnet Lane, Barnet Road and Rowley Lane take most of the driving on the practice loops on this page, with Stirling Way and Ripon Way at the start and the finish. The loops are short, between seven and eleven kilometres, and each carries five to eight roundabouts, so there is no long quiet stretch on which to build confidence.

Mini-roundabouts are the local speciality. Twenty-nine of them are mapped within two and a half kilometres of the centre. Two things get marked on them again and again: driving over the painted circle instead of around it, and forgetting the exit signal because the whole thing took four seconds. Neither is hard to fix, but both need practising on real ones rather than talking through.

Right turns are the other pattern. One of the shorter loops asks for nine of them in under seven kilometres, mostly out of residential roads onto busier ones, where the gap has to be judged rather than waited for.

A small share of the roads around the centre carry 40 and 50 limits, out on the Barnet Way and Barnet Bypass side, and that is the fastest driving on the routes. Elstree Way and the roundabouts along it carry the commercial traffic and are busiest at the ends of the working day.

Manoeuvres are usually set on the quieter estate roads, around Balmoral Drive, Furzehill Road and Manor Way, where the kerbs are straight and there is enough parking on one side to make a pull-up on the right worth doing properly.

Pass rate at Borehamwood, 2007/08 to 2025/26

Share of car tests passed each April-to-March year. Dashed line: Great Britain average for 2025/26.

40%50%60%GB 50%50.8%07/0811/1216/1720/2125/26

Month by month, 2025/26

0%30%60%AprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecJanFebMar

By year and gender

YearTestsPass rateMaleFemale
2025/267,19550.8%51.2%50.2%
2024/257,79846.8%49.1%43.3%
2023/247,95747.7%49.1%45.6%
2022/235,78351.6%52.0%51.1%
2021/224,12952.1%53.9%49.8%
2020/211,49653.7%58.3%48.0%
2019/203,31250.7%54.6%46.9%
2018/194,87950.8%54.1%47.1%

East of England average 51.4% · GB 50%

Waiting time for a test at Borehamwood

Median weeks between booking and taking the test, for tests taken each month. Dashed line: GB median for August 2026.

012.525GB 11.9 wks10.9Sep 2023May 2024Feb 2025Nov 2025Aug 2026
MonthMedian waitWeeks to free slotsSlots offeredStill free
Aug 202610.9243530.2%
Jul 202610.9243928.2%
Jun 202611.3243630.2%
May 20266.1245326.6%
Apr 20264.9245625.8%
Mar 20266.6245029%

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Test day at Borehamwood

The centre is Unit 1, Stirling Court, on Stirling Way, which is a business and industrial estate rather than a high street address. Stirling Court holds several units, so the number on the door is what to look for.

GOV.UK lists car tests and ADI part 3 at this centre, and nothing at all about access: no wheelchair statement, not even the standard line about DVSA making arrangements. Ring the booking line ahead if you need to know about steps or the entrance.

Parking is not published either. Estates of this kind usually have a small number of bays and some room on the road outside, which is typical rather than confirmed, so allow a few minutes to sort the car out instead of arriving on the minute.

Ten minutes before your slot is about right. The examiner checks your licence, takes the signed insurance declaration and does the eyesight check outside before you get in the car.

The drive normally starts on the estate roads, and given how many roundabouts sit around this centre the first real decision usually comes before you have settled into the seat. Booking, moving and cancelling a test all go through GOV.UK.

What DVSA publishes about Borehamwood

Taken from the GOV.UK test centre finder, checked 3 September 2026. Where DVSA says nothing, this site says nothing.

Tests conducted here
carADI part 3
Wheelchair access
Not published. Ring DVSA before the day rather than assuming.

Learner reports from Borehamwood

No reports yet for this centre. If you tested here, the first one is yours to write.

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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 Borehamwood.

  1. 1Junctions - observation
  2. 2Mirrors - change direction
  3. 3Junctions - turning right
  4. 4Response to signs - traffic lights
  5. 5Control - steering
  6. 6Move off - safely

All ten, and what each one means

Getting there

Unit 1 Stirling Court,, Stirling Way
Borehamwood WD6 2BT

Directions in Google Maps · Check centre notes on GOV.UK

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Questions learners ask about Borehamwood

Is Borehamwood an easy test centre?
It is close to the national average: 50.8% of tests were passed in 2025/26 against 50.0% across Great Britain.
How long is the wait for a driving test at Borehamwood?
In August 2026 the median gap between booking and sitting a test at Borehamwood was 10.9 weeks, and you had to look about 24 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 Borehamwood driving test centre?
Borehamwood test centre is at Unit 1 Stirling Court,, Stirling Way, Borehamwood, WD6 2BT. 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 Borehamwood do a year?
7,195 car tests were conducted at Borehamwood in 2025/26, of which 3,652 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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