Wellingborough driving test centre: practice routes and pass rate
Glamis Hall, Goldsmith Road, NN8 3RU
Wellingborough had a car driving test pass rate of 60% from April 2025 to March 2026 (1,450 tests), 9.9 points above the average across UK test centres (50.1%). Drive Round App has 5 practice routes around the centre; a typical route is about 13.3 km and takes around 24 minutes, mostly on town and residential roads (36%) and A roads (35%).
What the practice routes cover
- Town and residential roads36%
- A roads35%
- Country lanes16%
- Dual carriageways11%
- Other roads2%
On a typical route you'll go through 7 roundabouts and 16 sets of traffic lights.
Roundabouts on several routes
- Gladstone Road · Roundabout2 of 5 routes
- Kingsley Road · Mini-roundabout2 of 5 routes
Roads the routes use most
- Gladstone Road5 of 5 routes
- Mill Lane5 of 5 routes
- A508 Harborough Road2 of 5 routes
- A5095 Kingsley Road2 of 5 routes
- A5095 Kingsthorpe Grove2 of 5 routes
- A5199 Welford Road2 of 5 routes
- Boughton Green Road2 of 5 routes
Pass rate
From April 2025 to March 2026, 1,450 car tests were taken at Wellingborough and 870 passed: a pass rate of 60%.
Source: DVSA, “Practical car pass rates by gender, month and DTC” (DRT122A). Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Practise these routes
Open the 5 Wellingborough routes in the app with turn-by-turn navigation, then record your drive and get an AI report on how it went.
These are practice routes built by Drive Round App around the test centre, not official test routes: DVSA doesn't publish its routes, and examiners can use any road in the area. Practise a mix of roads and junctions, not one route. Routes last updated 17 August 2026.