Chesterfield driving test centre
Bus Garage, Approach Road, Stonegravels, Chesterfield, S41 7LT
Drive the 5 routes around Chesterfield before test day →
Key facts
- Chesterfield's pass rate was 56.2% in 2025/26 from 6,605 tests, 6.2 points above the national average of 50.0%.
- That puts it 6 of 20 centres in East Midlands (East Midlands average 50.8%), one of the higher pass rates in the region, 5.4 points above it.
- Since 2021/22 the pass rate has risen by 8.3 points, from 47.9% to 56.2%.
- On waiting times, learners who took a test in August 2026 had waited a median of 4.9 weeks since booking (shorter than the national median of 11.9 weeks); the first week with 10% or more of slots still free was 23 weeks ahead.
- A year earlier (August 2025) the median wait was 12.1 weeks, so waits have shortened by about 7.2 weeks.
Chesterfield passes 56.2 per cent of its candidates, eighty-sixth of the 302 centres ranked and sixth of the twenty in the East Midlands. It has also moved: 47.9 per cent in 2021/22 against 56.2 now, a rise of 8.3 points. What the practice loops on this page are built from is traffic lights — forty-eight sets of signals and thirty-six signalled crossings in fifty-three kilometres, which is dense for a town this size. Fifty-seven per cent of the distance is at 30 mph, and twelve per cent at 70 on dual carriageway. The wait has fallen from 13.1 weeks a year ago to 4.9 now, which is unusual enough to be worth acting on.
Drive the Chesterfield test routes before test day
5 loops from the centre, 53 km in all, with 20 roundabouts and 81 marked turns. Generated from the road network within 2.5 km of Chesterfield; not DVSA’s own routes, but the same roads.
Drive it before test day
Drive all 5 loops around Chesterfield from your phone before you ever sit in the car: every roundabout, every junction, in the order you will meet them.
- 5 routes · 53 km · 81 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 Ashgate Road8.8 km loop with 5 roundabouts, 8 right turns, 9 left turns and a stretch of Sheffield Road.8.8 km · 22 turns · 5 roundabouts
- Route 2 · via Brimington Road10.7 km loop with 4 roundabouts, 6 right turns, 6 left turns and a stretch of Sheffield Road.10.7 km · 16 turns · 4 roundabouts
- Route 3 · via Newbold Road11.0 km loop with 5 roundabouts, 7 right turns, 4 left turns and a stretch of Chesterfield Road.11.0 km · 16 turns · 5 roundabouts
- Route 4 · via Sheffield Road10.6 km loop with 3 roundabouts, 7 right turns, 5 left turns and a stretch of Saltergate.10.6 km · 15 turns · 3 roundabouts
- Route 5 · via Hady Hill12.3 km loop with 3 roundabouts, 6 right turns, 3 left turns and a stretch of Sheffield Road.12.3 km · 12 turns · 3 roundabouts
The same access also opens the four test manoeuvres and eight roundabout scenarios: the two things a route drive cannot teach you.
Forty-eight sets of traffic signals and thirty-six signalled crossings sit on these loops, across fifty-three kilometres of driving. That is roughly one set of signals every kilometre, and it is the thing that defines a Chesterfield test: a good part of the drive is spent approaching a light and working out what it is about to do.
The roundabouts are secondary, but not few. Nine named ones — Markham Road, Hollis Lane, Rother Way, Sheffield Road, Lockoford Lane, Chesterfield Road, Brewery Street, Lordsmill Street and Peveril Road — plus six mini-roundabouts, with each of the five practice loops on this page carrying three to five of them in nine to twelve kilometres.
Speeds spread wider than most town centres manage. Fifty-seven per cent of the distance is at 30 mph, nineteen per cent at 40, eight per cent at 50 and twelve per cent at 70 on dual carriageway. That last stretch is a genuine change of task, and it is the part that learners who have only driven the streets around Stonegravels tend not to have done.
The A619 and A632 both appear, along with the B6039, B6050, B6051, B6052, B6057, B6150 and B6543. St Helen's Street, Sheffield Road, Newbold Road, Hollis Lane, Holywell Street, Peveril Road, Lockoford Lane, Chesterfield Road, Holmebank West, Holmebank View, Rother Way and Hawksley Avenue carry the rest.
There are fourteen give-way junctions, four zebra crossings, no traffic calming anywhere on the set, no level crossing, and thirty-one schools in the area.
Pass rate at Chesterfield, 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 | 6,605 | 56.2% | 56.3% | 56.1% |
| 2024/25 | 4,608 | 54.5% | 55.8% | 52.8% |
| 2023/24 | 4,701 | 50.3% | 50.7% | 49.9% |
| 2022/23 | 3,795 | 47.4% | 47.2% | 47.7% |
| 2021/22 | 3,659 | 47.9% | 48.8% | 46.8% |
| 2020/21 | 955 | 48.6% | 47.4% | 49.9% |
| 2019/20 | 3,322 | 44.7% | 45.6% | 44.0% |
| 2018/19 | 3,265 | 47.3% | 49.4% | 45.5% |
East Midlands average 50.8% · GB 50%
Waiting time for a test at Chesterfield
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 | 4.9 | 23 | 50 | 18.2% |
| Jul 2026 | 4.9 | 22.5 | 56 | 20.3% |
| Jun 2026 | 8 | 23.2 | 47 | 19.1% |
| May 2026 | 6.1 | 24 | 53 | 20.1% |
| Apr 2026 | 6.1 | 23.5 | 56 | 15.2% |
| Mar 2026 | 6.4 | 24 | 52 | 20.7% |
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Test day at Chesterfield
Car tests run from the bus garage on Approach Road in Stonegravels, S41 7LT, along with motorcycle module 2 and ADI parts 2 and 3. DVSA says you can access this test centre if you use a wheelchair.
Chesterfield station is 800 metres away.
Nothing is published about parking. A working bus garage is not somewhere to leave a car casually, so treat the surrounding streets as the plan.
The waiting time is the reason to look here. A median of 4.9 weeks for tests taken in July 2026, against 11.9 weeks across Great Britain — and 13.1 weeks at this same centre a year earlier. It has more than halved. The first week with a tenth of its appointments still free was still twenty-two and a half weeks out, so the short median reflects slots freeing up rather than an empty diary.
The comparison worth making is Sheffield (Handsworth), fourteen kilometres away, which passes 44.1 per cent against Chesterfield's 56.2 and waits six weeks. Worksop and Ashfield are both about twenty kilometres out, passing 55.2 and 57.3 per cent, but Ashfield was waiting 18.2 weeks. Tests are booked, moved and cancelled only through GOV.UK.
What DVSA publishes about Chesterfield
Taken from the GOV.UK test centre finder, checked 3 September 2026. Where DVSA says nothing, this site says nothing.
- Tests conducted here
- carmotorcycle module 2 (on-road)ADI part 2ADI part 3
- Wheelchair access
- DVSA states you can access this centre in a wheelchair.
Other tests at Chesterfield
This centre is not car only. DVSA publishes results for these categories separately, and they are taken by different candidates on different vehicles, so the rates are not comparable with the car figure above.
Learner reports from Chesterfield
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 Chesterfield.
- 1Junctions - observation
- 2Mirrors - change direction
- 3Junctions - turning right
- 4Response to signs - traffic lights
- 5Control - steering
- 6Move off - safely
Getting there
Bus Garage, Approach Road, StonegravelsChesterfield S41 7LT
Directions in Google Maps · Check centre notes on GOV.UK
Nearby centres
- Sheffield (Handsworth)Sheffield · S13 9LT · 14 km44.1%-5.9 vs GB6 wkswait
- AshfieldSutton-in-Ashfield · NG17 5LA · 18 km57.3%+7.3 vs GB18.2 wkswait
- WorksopS81 8BW · 20 km55.2%+5.2 vs GB11 wkswait
- Sheffield (Middlewood Road)Sheffield · S6 1TQ · 20 km48.7%-1.3 vs GB18.6 wkswait
- RotherhamS61 4RL · 22 km53.1%+3.1 vs GB9.5 wkswait
- BuxtonSK17 9DS · 33 km58.7%+8.7 vs GB15 wkswait
Questions learners ask about Chesterfield
- Is Chesterfield an easy test centre?
- By the numbers, yes: 56.2% 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 Chesterfield?
- In August 2026 the median gap between booking and sitting a test at Chesterfield was 4.9 weeks, and you had to look about 23 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 Chesterfield driving test centre?
- Chesterfield test centre is at Bus Garage, Approach Road, Stonegravels, Chesterfield, S41 7LT. 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 Chesterfield do a year?
- 6,605 car tests were conducted at Chesterfield in 2025/26, of which 3,712 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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