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Uxbridge driving test centre

DVSA name: Uxbridge (London) · Unit 7, Trade City Business Park, Off Cowley Mill Road, Uxbridge, UB8 2DB

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Pass rate 2025/26
52.3%
GB 50.0% · London 49.1%
Median wait, Aug 2026
11.8weeks
Free slots 24 weeks ahead
Tests a year
6,051
3,163 passed

Key facts

  • Uxbridge's pass rate was 52.3% in 2025/26 from 6,051 tests, 2.3 points above the national average of 50.0%.
  • That puts it 6 of 24 centres in London (London average 49.1%), one of the higher pass rates in the region, 3.2 points above it.
  • The rate has been stable since 2021/22, moving between 45.7% (2023/24) and 52.3% (2025/26).
  • Male candidates passed at 54.1% and female candidates at 49.2%, a gap of 4.9 points.
  • On waiting times, learners who took a test in August 2026 had waited a median of 11.8 weeks since booking; the first week with 10% or more of slots still free was 24 weeks ahead.
  • A year earlier (August 2025) the median wait was 4.6 weeks, so waits have grown by about 7.2 weeks.

Uxbridge is a London test centre whose routes leave London. The unit sits on Trade City Business Park off Cowley Mill Road, and within a couple of miles the roads cross into Buckinghamshire at Iver. Iver Lane, Bangors Road South and Slough Road are lanes rather than streets, and seven per cent of the roads tagged near the centre carry a 60 limit. That mix is the thing to prepare for. Half the test is dense outer-London driving, with thirty-four mini-roundabouts and fifty-two sets of traffic signals in the surrounding area. The other half is national speed limit country road with hedges, blind bends and no footway. Very few centres ask a candidate for both inside forty minutes.

Drive the Uxbridge test routes before test day

5 loops from the centre, 51 km in all, with 7 roundabouts and 100 marked turns. Generated from the road network within 2.5 km of Uxbridge; not DVSA’s own routes, but the same roads.

Drive it before test day

Drive all 5 loops around Uxbridge from your phone before you ever sit in the car: every roundabout, every junction, in the order you will meet them.

  • 5 routes · 51 km · 100 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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  1. Route 1 · via Cowley Road
    11.9 km loop with 2 roundabouts, 8 right turns, 11 left turns and a stretch of Vine Lane.
    11.9 km · 21 turns · 2 roundabouts
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  2. Route 2 · via The Greenway
    5.5 km loop with 2 roundabouts, 10 right turns, 10 left turns and a stretch of Cowley Mill Road.
    5.5 km · 22 turns · 2 roundabouts
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  3. Route 3 · via Oxford Road
    11.2 km loop with 2 roundabouts, 7 right turns, 11 left turns and a stretch of Hillingdon Road.
    11.2 km · 20 turns · 2 roundabouts
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  4. Route 4 · via Iver Lane
    11.7 km loop with 10 right turns, 10 left turns and a stretch of Bangors Road South.
    11.7 km · 20 turns
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  5. Route 5 · via Slough Road
    11.2 km loop with 1 roundabout, 7 right turns, 9 left turns and a stretch of Bangors Road South.
    11.2 km · 17 turns · 1 roundabout
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The same access also opens the four test manoeuvres and eight roundabout scenarios: the two things a route drive cannot teach you.

The routes split into two kinds of driving and the practice loops on this page show it plainly. Four of the five run between eleven and twelve kilometres and reach out towards Iver. The fifth is only 5.5 km and stays close in, with ten right turns and ten lefts packed into it. Draw the short one and you get junction after junction with no recovery between them.

Near the centre the driving is outer London. Cowley Mill Road, Hillingdon Road and Cowley Road carry the traffic, fifty-two sets of traffic signals sit within two and a half kilometres, and thirty-four mini-roundabouts are spread through the residential streets. They outnumber the conventional ones by a wide margin and produce the familiar faults: no signal for the exit, or a straight line driven across the paint.

Further out the character changes completely. Bangors Road South, Iver Lane and Slough Road run through open country at a 60 limit, with no footway and bends you cannot see round. Two of the loops use Bangors Road South as their main stretch. What is marked there is not speed but reading the road ahead and losing it before the bend rather than in it.

The named roundabouts sit mostly on the edges of the area, Stockley Park, Swakeleys, Colham and Apple Tree among them, and no loop touches more than two. Lane discipline on a large roundabout matters less here than at other west London centres.

Manoeuvres go on the quieter residential roads. The Greenway, Park Road, Cleveland Road and Ashley Road are the sort to expect: straight kerbs, and one side parked heavily enough to make a pull-up on the right worth practising.

Pass rate at Uxbridge, 2010/11 to 2025/26

Share of car tests passed each April-to-March year. Dashed line: Great Britain average for 2025/26.

40%47.5%55%GB 50%52.3%10/1113/1417/1821/2225/26

Month by month, 2025/26

0%35%70%AprMayJunJulAugSepOctFebMar

By year and gender

YearTestsPass rateMaleFemale
2025/266,05152.3%54.1%49.2%
2024/257,37849.6%49.8%49.1%
2023/247,18745.7%47.3%43.0%
2022/236,92846.4%46.9%45.5%
2021/224,54650.9%52.2%48.8%
2020/211,04449.8%51.7%47.8%
2019/204,49448.6%52.0%44.8%
2018/194,84748.6%52.1%44.8%

London average 49.1% · GB 50%

Waiting time for a test at Uxbridge

Median weeks between booking and taking the test, for tests taken each month. Dashed line: GB median for August 2026.

07.515GB 11.9 wks11.8Sep 2023May 2024Feb 2025Nov 2025Aug 2026
MonthMedian waitWeeks to free slotsSlots offeredStill free
Aug 202611.8243237.7%
Jul 202611.8243940.5%
Jun 202612.9244140.8%
May 202611.1244539.4%
Apr 202610.2244738.7%
Mar 20266.9245122.9%

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Test day at Uxbridge

The centre is Unit 7 on Trade City Business Park, off Cowley Mill Road. It is a modern estate unit rather than a shopfront, so follow the estate road round and look for the unit number instead of a sign you can read from Cowley Mill Road.

Car tests are conducted here along with motorcycle module 1 and module 2. Module 1 is the off-road manoeuvring test, so the site has a manoeuvring area, and on a busy morning there will be bikes working on it while you wait. Nothing is published about wheelchair access or other arrangements, so ring the centre ahead if you need step-free entry confirmed.

Uxbridge station is a bit over a mile away, walkable but not something to do at speed with a test on your mind. Most candidates arrive with an instructor.

Parking is not published. Business park units normally have bays on site shared with the neighbouring occupiers, which is typical rather than confirmed, so leave a few minutes to find one.

The examiner calls you by name, checks your licence and takes the signed declaration that the car is insured. The eyesight check is done on the estate before you get in the car. Tests are booked, moved and cancelled only through GOV.UK.

What DVSA publishes about Uxbridge

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 1 (off-road)motorcycle module 2 (on-road)
Wheelchair access
Not published. Ring DVSA before the day rather than assuming.

Other tests at Uxbridge

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.

Motorcycle

Module 1 2025/26
71.4%1,978 tests
Module 2 2025/26
65.0%2,136 tests

Year by year at this site

Learner reports from Uxbridge

No reports yet for this centre. If you tested here, the first one is yours to write.

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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 Uxbridge.

  1. 1Junctions - observation
  2. 2Mirrors - change direction
  3. 3Junctions - turning right
  4. 4Response to signs - traffic lights
  5. 5Control - steering
  6. 6Move off - safely

All ten, and what each one means

Getting there

Unit 7, Trade City Business Park, Off Cowley Mill Road
Uxbridge UB8 2DB

Directions in Google Maps · Check centre notes on GOV.UK

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Questions learners ask about Uxbridge

Is Uxbridge an easy test centre?
By the numbers, yes: 52.3% 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 Uxbridge?
In August 2026 the median gap between booking and sitting a test at Uxbridge was 11.8 weeks, and you had to look about 24 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 Uxbridge driving test centre?
Uxbridge test centre is at Unit 7, Trade City Business Park, Off Cowley Mill Road, Uxbridge, UB8 2DB. 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 Uxbridge do a year?
6,051 car tests were conducted at Uxbridge in 2025/26, of which 3,163 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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