Salisbury driving test centre
Rougemont Close, Salisbury, SP1 1LY
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Key facts
- Salisbury's pass rate was 48.5% in 2025/26 from 6,630 tests, 1.5 points below the national average of 50.0%.
- That puts it 13 of 21 centres in South West (South West average 51.7%), a mid-table pass rates in the region, 3.2 points below it.
- Since 2021/22 the pass rate has fallen by 6.2 points, from 54.7% to 48.5%.
- On waiting times, learners who took a test in August 2026 had waited a median of 5.3 weeks since booking (shorter than the national median of 11.9 weeks); the first week with 10% or more of slots still free was 15.6 weeks ahead.
- A year earlier (August 2025) the median wait was 10.3 weeks, so waits have shortened by about 5 weeks.
- 20.3% 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.
Thirty-two mini-roundabouts sit within two and a half kilometres of the Salisbury test centre. That count tells you what the test is made of. Add forty-four signalled junctions and eight named conventional roundabouts, and there is a give-way or a decision every few hundred metres from the moment you leave Rougemont Close.
Salisbury is also one of the harder centres in the South West. The pass rate is below the national average and has fallen since 2021, which runs against the national direction. The compensation is availability: the wait is short, and roughly a third of the slots in the booking window were still unbooked in July 2026.
Drive the Salisbury test routes before test day
5 loops from the centre, 45 km in all, with 24 roundabouts and 129 marked turns. Generated from the road network within 2.5 km of Salisbury; not DVSA’s own routes, but the same roads.
Drive it before test day
Drive all 5 loops around Salisbury from your phone before you ever sit in the car: every roundabout, every junction, in the order you will meet them.
- 5 routes · 45 km · 129 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 Churchill Way West8.9 km loop with 3 roundabouts, 15 right turns, 15 left turns and a stretch of Riverbourne Road.8.9 km · 33 turns · 3 roundabouts
- Route 2 · via Churchill Way North10.2 km loop with 7 roundabouts, 11 right turns, 10 left turns and a stretch of London Road.10.2 km · 28 turns · 7 roundabouts
- Route 3 · via Churchill Way East9.5 km loop with 7 roundabouts, 6 right turns, 4 left turns and a stretch of Riverside Road.9.5 km · 17 turns · 7 roundabouts
- Route 4 · via London Road7.9 km loop with 2 roundabouts, 9 right turns, 16 left turns and a stretch of Wain-a-long Road.7.9 km · 27 turns · 2 roundabouts
- Route 5 · via Churchill Way North8.4 km loop with 5 roundabouts, 7 right turns, 12 left turns and a stretch of Riverside Road.8.4 km · 24 turns · 5 roundabouts
The same access also opens the four test manoeuvres and eight roundabout scenarios: the two things a route drive cannot teach you.
The mini-roundabout is the Salisbury test. Thirty-two of them sit within two and a half kilometres of the centre, and they are what the city uses in place of traffic lights on residential through roads. The rules are the ones people get careless about: give way to the right, signal for the exit, and keep the wheels off the painted circle rather than straightening across it. Two of them in quick succession, with a turn between, is the sequence that produces faults.
Churchill Way West and Churchill Way North form the ring road, and they carry the faster, busier part of the loops on this page. College Roundabout, Bishopdown Farm and Hampton Park are named junctions in the area, and the A338 supplies dual carriageway on the edge of the city.
London Road, Laverstock Road and Milford Mill Road link the ring road to the eastern suburbs, and this is where the test spends most of its time. Three in ten of the roads mapped nearby are 20 mph and half are 30, so the pattern repeats: a short 30, a mini-roundabout, then a 20 zone on the other side of it.
Manor Road, Barrington Road, Bourne Avenue and Kelsey Road are the quieter residential streets where manoeuvres are usually set, with straight kerbs and parking on one side. Thirty schools sit inside the area, which is a lot for a city this size, and an afternoon test in term time will run into at least one of them. Fisherton Street and Odstock Road appear on the longer loops.
Pass rate at Salisbury, 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 | 6,630 | 48.5% | 48.2% | 48.8% |
| 2024/25 | 5,624 | 52.5% | 51.3% | 54.1% |
| 2023/24 | 4,406 | 56.1% | 54.3% | 58.1% |
| 2022/23 | 3,481 | 56.2% | 57.6% | 54.8% |
| 2021/22 | 4,418 | 54.7% | 54.5% | 54.9% |
| 2020/21 | 1,284 | 59.1% | 60.2% | 58.1% |
| 2019/20 | 3,546 | 55.1% | 57.3% | 53.0% |
| 2018/19 | 3,458 | 56.9% | 59.4% | 54.7% |
South West average 51.7% · GB 50%
Waiting time for a test at Salisbury
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 | 5.3 | 15.6 | 55 | 20.3% |
| Jul 2026 | 5.3 | 16.5 | 59 | 17.6% |
| Jun 2026 | 3.6 | 10.2 | 66 | 17% |
| May 2026 | 3.4 | 24 | 60 | 18.6% |
| Apr 2026 | 5.9 | 24 | 54 | 21% |
| Mar 2026 | 5.1 | 24 | 55 | 22.7% |
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Test day at Salisbury
Salisbury station is a little over a kilometre from the centre on Rougemont Close, so walking in is realistic if your instructor is meeting you there rather than driving you.
On access, DVSA publishes only that it will make arrangements for candidates with a disability. There is no statement about wheelchair access, a waiting room or toilets, so treat all of that as unpublished and ring the booking line ahead if you need to know what the building is like.
The record lists car tests, motorcycle module 2 on the road, and ADI part 3. Module 1, the off-road manoeuvring test, is taken elsewhere.
Parking is not published either. Units on a close of this kind usually have a small number of bays, and bays fill up when tests start and finish together, so the safe assumption is that you may be parking on a nearby street and walking the last part. Leave time for it.
Waits here have shortened by more than five weeks over the past year, and a good share of the booking window was still open in July 2026. If you have a date you are unhappy with, it is worth looking again for something earlier. Booking, moving and cancelling all go through GOV.UK and nowhere else.
What DVSA publishes about Salisbury
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
- 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.
Other tests at Salisbury
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 Salisbury
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 Salisbury.
- 1Junctions - observation
- 2Mirrors - change direction
- 3Junctions - turning right
- 4Response to signs - traffic lights
- 5Control - steering
- 6Move off - safely
Getting there
Rougemont CloseSalisbury SP1 1LY
Directions in Google Maps · Check centre notes on GOV.UK
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- TrowbridgeBA14 7DZ · 39 km55.2%+5.2 vs GB8.9 wkswait
Questions learners ask about Salisbury
- Is Salisbury an easy test centre?
- Its 48.5% pass rate in 2025/26 is below the 50.0% national average. Busy urban roads and complex junctions usually explain lower rates; knowing the local routes closes most of that gap.
- How long is the wait for a driving test at Salisbury?
- In August 2026 the median gap between booking and sitting a test at Salisbury was 5.3 weeks, and you had to look about 15.6 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 Salisbury driving test centre?
- Salisbury test centre is at Rougemont Close, Salisbury, SP1 1LY. 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 Salisbury do a year?
- 6,630 car tests were conducted at Salisbury in 2025/26, of which 3,215 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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