Tunbridge Wells driving test centre

This is a test made of turns. Across the five practice loops on this page the right turns run to seventeen, twelve, twelve, nine and six, with a similar tally of lefts, and two of those loops have no roundabout on them at all. Only two named roundabouts exist in the area, with fourteen mini-roundabouts behind them. If your lessons have gone on roundabout lane discipline, that is not the preparation this centre will ask for.

What it asks for is the right turn across oncoming traffic on a narrow road, repeated until concentration thins. Grosvenor Road, Calverley Road and Pembury Road carry most of them, and thirty-three sets of traffic signals sit within two and a half kilometres, so many of those turns are signal-controlled with a filter to read quickly.

Gradient is the second feature. Culverden Down, Warwick Park and the roads off them rise and fall enough that a hill start here is a real one rather than a formality on a flat kerb. Rolling back is a fault at any centre, and this town gives you more chances to do it.

Limits are low and mixed. Forty-six per cent of the roads tagged nearby are 20 mph and forty-three per cent are 30, so the two sit side by side and the signs carry real weight. Only the A264 runs faster, at 40, and there is no dual carriageway anywhere on these routes.

Manoeuvres tend to go on the quieter residential roads, Meadow Road, Claremont Road and Sandhurst Road among them, where kerbs are straight and one side is parked heavily enough to make a pull-up on the right worth doing properly.