Knaresborough driving test centre
Ground Floor Unit 9, Grimbald Crag Court, St James Business Park, Knaresborough, HG5 8QB
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Key facts
- Knaresborough's pass rate was 58.5% in 2025/26 from 8,301 tests, 8.5 points above the national average of 50.0%.
- That puts it 4 of 27 centres in Yorkshire and The Humber (Yorkshire and The Humber average 50.4%), one of the higher pass rates in the region, 8.1 points above it.
- Since 2021/22 the pass rate has risen by 5.8 points, from 52.7% to 58.5%.
- On waiting times, learners who took a test in August 2026 had waited a median of 9.7 weeks since booking (shorter than the national median of 11.9 weeks); the first week with 10% or more of slots still free was 11.8 weeks ahead.
- A year earlier (August 2025) the median wait was 12.9 weeks, so waits have shortened by about 3.2 weeks.
Knaresborough has one of the higher pass rates in Yorkshire, and the shape of the test explains some of it. The centre sits on Grimbald Crag Court in St James Business Park, so the opening minute is wide estate roads with long sight lines rather than a town centre. What follows is roundabouts. Every practice loop on this page has at least six of them, and one takes in eleven inside a little over twelve kilometres. Around seven in ten roads tagged near the centre are 30 mph, but the A59 runs through as dual carriageway and the lanes north of the town are national speed limit, so the range of speeds is wider than the estate start suggests. With more than 8,000 tests a year this is a busy centre for its size.
Drive the Knaresborough test routes before test day
5 loops from the centre, 55 km in all, with 43 roundabouts and 134 marked turns. Generated from the road network within 2.5 km of Knaresborough; not DVSA’s own routes, but the same roads.
Drive it before test day
Drive all 5 loops around Knaresborough from your phone before you ever sit in the car: every roundabout, every junction, in the order you will meet them.
- 5 routes · 55 km · 134 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 Arnold Kellett Way12.6 km loop with 9 roundabouts, 12 right turns, 9 left turns and a stretch of Thistle Hill.12.6 km · 30 turns · 9 roundabouts
- Route 2 · via Arnold Kellett Way7.0 km loop with 9 roundabouts, 10 right turns, 7 left turns and a stretch of York Road.7.0 km · 26 turns · 9 roundabouts
- Route 3 · via Arnold Kellett Way12.2 km loop with 11 roundabouts, 9 right turns, 9 left turns and a stretch of Mill Road.12.2 km · 29 turns · 11 roundabouts
- Route 4 · via York Road11.6 km loop with 8 roundabouts, 9 right turns, 7 left turns and a stretch of Thistle Hill.11.6 km · 24 turns · 8 roundabouts
- Route 5 · via Mill Road11.5 km loop with 6 roundabouts, 12 right turns, 7 left turns and a stretch of York Road.11.5 km · 25 turns · 6 roundabouts
The same access also opens the four test manoeuvres and eight roundabout scenarios: the two things a route drive cannot teach you.
Roundabouts carry this test. Eight mini-roundabouts are tagged within two and a half kilometres of the centre, along with conventional ones on York Road and the A59, and the practice loops on this page pick up between six and eleven of them each. The business park roads are wide and often quiet, which is exactly what makes them easy to underrate: the observation and the signal are marked whether or not anything is coming.
Only five signal-controlled junctions sit in the same radius. That is very few, and it changes what the test is made of. Instead of queueing at lights you are reading give-way lines and judging gaps, which is a harder thing to do consistently for forty minutes.
York Road, Wetherby Road and Thistle Hill carry the faster half of the routes. The A59 is dual carriageway, and roughly one road in six tagged near the centre is national speed limit, so joining, matching the speed of traffic already moving and settling into a lane all get tested. Coming back down from sixty to a 30 limit on the way into town is where speed faults tend to appear.
Four level crossings sit within the same two and a half kilometres. Crossings are not on every loop, but if one comes up, the marking is straightforward and unforgiving: approach at a speed that lets you stop, and do not stop on the crossing itself.
Manoeuvres are usually asked for on the quieter residential roads off Manse Lane and the estate closes near the business park, where kerbs are straight and there is space to reverse without an audience.
Pass rate at Knaresborough, 2009/10 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 | 8,301 | 58.5% | 58.5% | 58.7% |
| 2024/25 | 5,305 | 58.5% | 57.9% | 59.3% |
| 2023/24 | 5,022 | 56.6% | 58.6% | 54.5% |
| 2022/23 | 5,841 | 52.9% | 54.8% | 50.9% |
| 2021/22 | 5,376 | 52.7% | 53.8% | 51.7% |
| 2020/21 | 1,287 | 54.2% | 55.5% | 52.9% |
| 2019/20 | 3,649 | 49.0% | 52.3% | 46.0% |
| 2018/19 | 4,248 | 48.9% | 51.4% | 46.6% |
Yorkshire and The Humber average 50.4% · GB 50%
Waiting time for a test at Knaresborough
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 | 9.7 | 11.8 | 40 | 6.7% |
| Jul 2026 | 9.7 | 11 | 41 | 7.8% |
| Jun 2026 | 9.4 | 13.6 | 41 | 7.9% |
| May 2026 | 8.9 | 10 | 42 | 10.2% |
| Apr 2026 | 7.9 | 12 | 45 | 18.6% |
| Mar 2026 | 7.6 | 12.2 | 48 | 14.4% |
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Test day at Knaresborough
The centre is a ground-floor unit on Grimbald Crag Court, in St James Business Park on the south-eastern edge of the town. Parking is not something DVSA publishes here. Units of this kind normally have marked bays outside and room on the estate roads, which is typical rather than confirmed, so allow a couple of minutes to park and walk in.
GOV.UK does publish that you can access this centre if you use a wheelchair. Car tests run here alongside motorcycle module 2 on-road tests and ADI part 3, so the waiting room can hold a mix of candidates on a busy morning.
Knaresborough station is about two kilometres away, on the far side of the river and the town centre, so most candidates arrive with an instructor rather than by train. Booking, moving and cancelling a test is done through GOV.UK and nowhere else.
The examiner checks your licence, has you sign the declaration that the car is insured for the test, and runs the eyesight check outside on the business park. Then the driving starts quickly, because the estate roads feed onto Grimbald Crag Way and into the first roundabout within a minute. Close to half the slots in the booking window were still unbooked, so a cancellation is worth watching for.
What DVSA publishes about Knaresborough
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 3
- Wheelchair access
- DVSA states you can access this centre in a wheelchair.
Other tests at Knaresborough
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 Knaresborough
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 Knaresborough.
- 1Junctions - observation
- 2Mirrors - change direction
- 3Junctions - turning right
- 4Response to signs - traffic lights
- 5Control - steering
- 6Move off - safely
Getting there
Ground Floor Unit 9, Grimbald Crag Court, St James Business ParkKnaresborough HG5 8QB
Directions in Google Maps · Check centre notes on GOV.UK
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Questions learners ask about Knaresborough
- Is Knaresborough an easy test centre?
- By the numbers, yes: 58.5% 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 Knaresborough?
- In August 2026 the median gap between booking and sitting a test at Knaresborough was 9.7 weeks, and you had to look about 11.8 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 Knaresborough driving test centre?
- Knaresborough test centre is at Ground Floor Unit 9, Grimbald Crag Court, St James Business Park, Knaresborough, HG5 8QB. 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 Knaresborough do a year?
- 8,301 car tests were conducted at Knaresborough in 2025/26, of which 4,860 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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