Trowbridge driving test centre
Longfield Community Centre, Weavers Drive, Trowbridge, BA14 7DZ
Drive the 5 routes around Trowbridge before test day →
Key facts
- Trowbridge's pass rate was 55.2% in 2025/26 from 3,074 tests, 5.2 points above the national average of 50.0%.
- That puts it 7 of 21 centres in South West (South West average 51.7%), one of the higher pass rates in the region, 3.5 points above it.
- Since 2021/22 the pass rate has risen by 4.9 points, from 50.3% to 55.2%.
- Male candidates passed at 57.4% and female candidates at 53.2%, a gap of 4.2 points.
- On waiting times, learners who took a test in August 2026 had waited a median of 8.9 weeks since booking (shorter than the national median of 11.9 weeks); the first week with 10% or more of slots still free was 16.4 weeks ahead.
- A year earlier (August 2025) the median wait was 10.9 weeks, so waits have shortened by about 2 weeks.
Trowbridge is a mini-roundabout town, and the numbers are startling. There are thirty mini-roundabouts within two and a half kilometres of the test centre, plus eight conventional roundabouts and twenty-six sets of traffic signals. Almost every practice loop on this page crosses five to nine roundabouts of one sort or the other. If you are weak on give way to the right, exit signals and lane choice on approach, this is the centre that will find it out. Add twenty schools inside the same radius and a road network where a quarter of the streets are 20 mph, and a Trowbridge drive is a steady sequence of small decisions rather than one big test of nerve.
Drive the Trowbridge test routes before test day
5 loops from the centre, 52 km in all, with 35 roundabouts and 144 marked turns. Generated from the road network within 2.5 km of Trowbridge; not DVSA’s own routes, but the same roads.
Drive it before test day
Drive all 5 loops around Trowbridge from your phone before you ever sit in the car: every roundabout, every junction, in the order you will meet them.
- 5 routes · 52 km · 144 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 West Ashton Road11.2 km loop with 8 roundabouts, 11 right turns, 16 left turns and a stretch of Bradley Road.11.2 km · 35 turns · 8 roundabouts
- Route 2 · via Drynham Road10.1 km loop with 5 roundabouts, 12 right turns, 14 left turns and a stretch of County Way.10.1 km · 31 turns · 5 roundabouts
- Route 3 · via Bradley Road9.3 km loop with 5 roundabouts, 15 right turns, 11 left turns and a stretch of County Way.9.3 km · 31 turns · 5 roundabouts
- Route 4 · via West Ashton Road9.4 km loop with 8 roundabouts, 9 right turns, 7 left turns and a stretch of Seymour Road.9.4 km · 24 turns · 8 roundabouts
- Route 5 · via West Ashton Road11.7 km loop with 9 roundabouts, 6 right turns, 8 left turns and a stretch of Leap Gate.11.7 km · 23 turns · 9 roundabouts
The same access also opens the four test manoeuvres and eight roundabout scenarios: the two things a route drive cannot teach you.
The roundabouts define this centre. Thirty mini-roundabouts and eight conventional ones sit within two and a half kilometres, and the practice loops on this page cross between five and nine of them each. The named ones you are most likely to meet are:
- West Ashton Road and Hilperton Road, on the eastern side near the centre
- Bythesea Road and County Way, on the ring around the town centre
- Devizes Road, Garth Road and Cusance Way, out towards the northern edge
Mini-roundabouts produce most of the marks. The faults are always the same three: no exit signal, arriving too fast to give way properly to the right, and driving over the painted circle instead of round it. Two mini-roundabouts in quick succession is common here, and the second one is where signals get forgotten.
The rest of the profile is ordinary in a way that helps. Just over half the tagged roads nearby are 30 mph and a little under a third are 20, with about one in eight at 40. There are no level crossings. County Way, Bradley Road, Frome Road and Stallard Street carry the through traffic and the signals, and twenty-six sets of lights in the area means stop-line discipline and lane selection get tested repeatedly.
Manoeuvres are usually asked for on the quieter residential roads, and the loops here run through Broadcloth Lane, Sheepcote Barton, Haden Road and Leap Gate. Twenty schools sit inside the same radius, so an afternoon test can put you into a school run on streets that are already narrow with parked cars.
Pass rate at Trowbridge, 2011/12 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 | 3,074 | 55.2% | 57.4% | 53.2% |
| 2024/25 | 2,547 | 51.1% | 51.4% | 50.8% |
| 2023/24 | 2,939 | 50.3% | 52.1% | 48.6% |
| 2022/23 | 2,940 | 52.1% | 52.7% | 51.5% |
| 2021/22 | 2,574 | 50.3% | 50.2% | 50.5% |
| 2020/21 | 745 | 55.4% | 57.0% | 53.9% |
| 2019/20 | 1,335 | 49.8% | 52.5% | 47.8% |
| 2018/19 | 1,280 | 50.1% | 51.6% | 48.9% |
South West average 51.7% · GB 50%
Waiting time for a test at Trowbridge
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 | 8.9 | 16.4 | 43 | 9.6% |
| Jul 2026 | 8.9 | 15.3 | 44 | 9.6% |
| Jun 2026 | 7.7 | 19.2 | 46 | 7.3% |
| May 2026 | 4.9 | 24 | 61 | 7.9% |
| Apr 2026 | 7.7 | 24 | 46 | 9.7% |
| Mar 2026 | 5.9 | 24 | 55 | 10.5% |
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Test day at Trowbridge
The centre is at Longfield Community Centre on Weavers Drive, a community building rather than a dedicated DVSA office, on the eastern side of town. Trowbridge station is about a kilometre away. Parking is not published for candidates here, and a shared community building usually means shared parking, so the honest advice is to arrive with time in hand and expect the car park to have other users in it.
DVSA publishes that this centre provides car tests. Nothing is published about wheelchair access or about arrangements for candidates with a disability, so if you need either you should ring DVSA before booking rather than raise it on the morning. No published line is not a refusal, but it does mean you have to ask the question yourself.
After the licence check and the insurance declaration, the eyesight check is done outside on a parked plate. The drive begins on Weavers Drive in a residential area and reaches a roundabout quickly, which is representative of the whole test. Waits here are shorter than the national median, so if your date is not convenient it is usually worth looking again on GOV.UK rather than accepting the first slot offered.
What DVSA publishes about Trowbridge
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. Ring DVSA before the day rather than assuming.
Learner reports from Trowbridge
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 Trowbridge.
- 1Junctions - observation
- 2Mirrors - change direction
- 3Junctions - turning right
- 4Response to signs - traffic lights
- 5Control - steering
- 6Move off - safely
Getting there
Longfield Community Centre, Weavers DriveTrowbridge BA14 7DZ
Directions in Google Maps · Check centre notes on GOV.UK
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- SwindonSN5 5BL · 39 km51.1%+1.1 vs GB11.7 wkswait
- SalisburySP1 1LY · 39 km48.5%-1.5 vs GB5.3 wkswait
Questions learners ask about Trowbridge
- Is Trowbridge an easy test centre?
- By the numbers, yes: 55.2% 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 Trowbridge?
- In August 2026 the median gap between booking and sitting a test at Trowbridge was 8.9 weeks, and you had to look about 16.4 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 Trowbridge driving test centre?
- Trowbridge test centre is at Longfield Community Centre, Weavers Drive, Trowbridge, BA14 7DZ. 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 Trowbridge do a year?
- 3,074 car tests were conducted at Trowbridge in 2025/26, of which 1,698 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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