Yeading

Somewhere real to practise

3 circuits from the test centre on Cygnet Way, Willow Tree Lane, Yeading, each one 35 minutes or more, taking in the junctions a Yeading test actually uses. Turn by turn, with the roundabout exits numbered, and a manoeuvre to try on each one.

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Before you drive any of these

Practising in your own car is legal and it is the cheapest way to get better. The rules are short:

Whoever sits beside you must be over 21, qualified to drive that type of car, and have held their full licence for three years.
The car needs L plates front and rear, and insurance that covers you as a learner. Some insurers also want the supervisor to be over 25.
No motorways. A learner can only go on one with an approved instructor in a dual-control car, so none of these routes touch one.

The rules on GOV.UK

These are not the examiner's routes, and nobody else's are either.

DVSA stopped publishing test routes in 2010 and refuses freedom-of-information requests for them. Since December 2017 four tests in five are led by a sat nav the examiner sets up, so even the examiner's route is not a fixed thing you could learn.

What these are: loops on the real roads around the centre, put together so you meet the junctions and road types the test actually assesses. Drive the roads, not a sequence.

You drive. Somebody else reads.

Nobody can read a numbered list while driving, and a sat nav will not tell you which exit to take early enough to get in the right lane. So these routes are written for the person in the passenger seat: the supervising driver who has to be there anyway.

Two ways to do that: print the route and put it on their lap, or send it to them on WhatsApp. Either way they call the turns and you drive.

If the phone and the written steps disagree, the written steps are the route. Google plots its own line between the places we hand it, and it will sometimes take a turn this page would not print.

About the Google Maps links

Google does not follow our route. It draws its own between the places we give it, and it is bound by none of the rules these pages are built on, two of which matter here: no turn in the road and no motorway.

So a route goes to Google in legs, and each leg ends at a real place to stop: a car park, a quiet side street, a loop road, with a manoeuvre to do there. The next leg starts from a parked car, so there is nothing behind you for Google to turn round for. Every leg is opened in Google Maps and checked by hand before its button goes on the page.

A route whose legs have not been checked yet has no Google Maps button. Drive it with the written directions read out, which is how the test itself works anyway.

Two other things Google will not tell you: its travel time assumes a confident driver in clear traffic, so expect ours to be closer; and it will happily route you down something a learner should not be on. Look at it before you set off.

The small map on each route is ours, drawn from the same data. It needs no permission, loads instantly and prints, which is why it is the one you see first.

Route 1 · Target Roundabout → White Hart

Target and White Hart

The two A312 roundabouts either side of the centre and little else. The shortest of the six and the one to drive first.

7.8 milesabout 43 min

Test centre1Stops

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Drive it in 4 legs

Each button opens one leg in Google Maps. A leg ends at a stop with something to practise, so do the leg, park, do the manoeuvre, then open the next.

Leg 1 · 1.6 milesTo Bengarth Road Open inGoogle Maps

Pull up on the left, then turn the car round in the road

Left off Church Road, just after Northolt Library and before Target roundabout
Use forward and reverse, as few moves as you need, and finish facing back towards Church Road.
Directions for the passenger, leg 16 steps
1. 1
  Start on the test centre access road 280 yards
2. 2
  Turn right into Cygnet Way 140 yards
3. 3
  Turn left into Willow Tree Lane 80 yards
4. 4
  At the roundabout, take the 3rd exit onto The Parkway 0.7 miles
  Approach in the left lane and signal left.
5. 5
  At White Hart, take the 3rd exit onto Church Road 0.3 miles
  Approach in the left lane and signal left.
6. 6
  Turn left into Bengarth Road 220 yards
7. Stop here: Pull up on the left, then turn the car round in the road.
Leg 2 · 3.9 milesTo Makepeace Road Open inGoogle Maps

Reverse park behind a parked car, then turn the car round in the road

Left off Church Road after the A40 loop, opposite Northolt Gardens
Use forward and reverse, as few moves as you need, and finish facing back towards Church Road.
Directions for the passenger, leg 212 steps
1. 1
  Facing back the way you came in, drive along Bengarth Road to the end 220 yards
2. 2
  Turn left into Church Road 0.4 miles
3. 3
  At Target Roundabout, take the 3rd exit onto Western Avenue 170 yards
  No signal on the approach. Keep left unless the markings say otherwise, then signal left after the exit before yours.
4. 4
  Turn right to stay on Western Avenue 270 yards
5. 5
  Turn right to stay on Western Avenue 0.9 miles
6. 6
  Turn left to stay on Western Avenue 0.2 miles
7. 7
  At the roundabout, take the 4th exit onto Western Avenue 0.2 miles
  No signal on the approach. Keep left unless the markings say otherwise, then signal left after the exit before yours.
8. 8
  Turn right to stay on Western Avenue 0.9 miles
9. 9
  Turn left to stay on Western Avenue 380 yards
10. 10
  At Target Roundabout, take the 1st exit onto Church Road 0.2 miles
  Approach in the left lane and signal left.
11. 11
  Turn left into Makepeace Road 180 yards
12. 12
  Turn right to stay on Makepeace Road 110 yards
13. Stop here: Reverse park behind a parked car, then turn the car round in the road.
Leg 3 · 1.2 milesTo Maple Road Open inGoogle Maps

Pull up on the right, reverse two car lengths, then turn the car round in the road

Left off Yeading Lane, before the Willow Tree Lane turn
Use forward and reverse, as few moves as you need, and finish facing back towards Yeading Lane.
Directions for the passenger, leg 37 steps
1. 1
  Facing back the way you came in, drive along Makepeace Road to the end 110 yards
2. 2
  Turn left to stay on Makepeace Road 180 yards
3. 3
  Turn left into Church Road 0.5 miles
4. 4
  At White Hart, take the 3rd exit onto Yeading Lane 0.3 miles
  No signal on the approach. Keep left unless the markings say otherwise, then signal left after the exit before yours.
5. 5
  At the roundabout, take the 1st exit onto Yeading Lane 40 yards
  Approach in the left lane and signal left.
6. 6
  Turn right into the link road 150 yards
7. 7
  Turn left into Maple Road 100 yards
8. Stop here: Pull up on the right, reverse two car lengths, then turn the car round in the road.
Leg 4 · 1.1 milesBack to the test centre Open inGoogle Maps
The last leg. Nothing to do at the end of it but park.
Directions for the passenger, leg 47 steps
1. 1
  Facing back the way you came in, drive along Maple Road to the end 110 yards
2. 2
  Turn left into Yeading Lane 0.3 miles
3. 3
  Turn left into Willow Tree Lane 0.4 miles
4. 4
  At the roundabout, take the 2nd exit onto Willow Tree Lane 150 yards
  Approach in the left lane and signal left.
5. 5
  Turn right to stay on Willow Tree Lane 70 yards
6. 6
  Turn left into Cygnet Way 130 yards
7. 7
  Turn into the test centre.
8. You are back at the test centre. Park where you started.

Stop only where it is safe and legal, and read the signs: a car park is somebody's, and a residential street has driveways and junctions to stay clear of.

Route 2 · Apple Tree Roundabout → Colham Roundabout → Barra Hall Circus

Apple Tree, Colham and Barra Hall

Three named roundabouts west of the centre, one after another. Drive this one twice if exits and lane discipline are where the faults come from.

10.0 milesabout 49 min

Test centre1Stops

Send to my navigator on WhatsApp

Drive it in 4 legs

Each button opens one leg in Google Maps. A leg ends at a stop with something to practise, so do the leg, park, do the manoeuvre, then open the next.

Leg 1 · 3.4 milesTo Westbourne Road Open inGoogle Maps

Pull up on the left, then turn the car round in the road

Left off Uxbridge Road at Hillingdon Heath, just before the Lees Road turn
Use forward and reverse, as few moves as you need, and finish facing back towards Uxbridge Road.
Directions for the passenger, leg 17 steps
1. 1
  Start on the test centre access road 280 yards
2. 2
  Turn right into Cygnet Way 140 yards
3. 3
  Turn left into Willow Tree Lane 80 yards
4. 4
  At the roundabout, take the 1st exit onto The Parkway 0.5 miles
  Approach in the left lane and signal left.
5. 5
  Turn left to stay on The Parkway 0.3 miles
6. 6
  At the roundabout, take the 3rd exit onto Uxbridge Road 2.1 miles
  Approach in the left lane and signal left.
7. 7
  Turn left into Westbourne Road 170 yards
8. Stop here: Pull up on the left, then turn the car round in the road.
Leg 2 · 1.6 milesTo Apple Tree Avenue Open inGoogle Maps

Reverse park behind a parked car

Right off Birch Avenue, before the roundabout at Park View Road
Quiet estate roads from Pield Heath Road onwards. Royal Lane is narrow with parked cars on both sides, so hold back and let oncoming traffic through.
Directions for the passenger, leg 28 steps
1. 1
  Facing back the way you came in, drive along Westbourne Road to the end 30 yards
2. 2
  Turn left into Widmore Road 210 yards
3. 3
  Turn left into Lees Road 330 yards
4. 4
  At the roundabout, take the 1st exit onto A437 30 yards
  Approach in the left lane and signal left.
5. 5
  At the roundabout, take the 2nd exit onto Pield Heath Road 0.5 miles
  Approach in the left lane and signal left.
6. 6
  Turn left into Royal Lane 0.5 miles
7. 7
  Turn left into Birch Avenue 160 yards
8. 8
  Turn right into Apple Tree Avenue 120 yards
9. Stop here: Reverse park behind a parked car.
Leg 3 · 2 milesTo Beechwood Avenue Open inGoogle Maps

Pull up on the right, reverse two car lengths, then rejoin

Right off Judge Heath Lane, after the turn from Harlington Road
Two roundabouts and a right turn on the way here. Beechwood Avenue is long and straight, so it is a fair place to practise.
Directions for the passenger, leg 38 steps
1. 1
  Check your mirrors and blind spot, then move off along Apple Tree Avenue 210 yards
2. 2
  At Apple Tree Roundabout, take the 1st exit onto Stockley Road
  Approach in the left lane and signal left.
3. 3
  At Colham Roundabout, take the 2nd exit onto Stockley Road 320 yards
  Approach in the left lane and signal left.
4. 4
  At the roundabout, take the 1st exit onto West Drayton Road 0.5 miles
  Approach in the left lane and signal left.
5. 5
  Turn right into Harlington Road 0.7 miles
6. 6
  Carry on into A437 100 yards
7. 7
  Turn left into Botwell Common Road 180 yards
8. 8
  Turn left into Beechwood Avenue 210 yards
9. Stop here: Pull up on the right, reverse two car lengths, then rejoin.
Leg 4 · 2.9 milesBack to the test centre Open inGoogle Maps
The last leg. Nothing to do at the end of it but park.
Directions for the passenger, leg 411 steps
1. 1
  Check your mirrors and blind spot, then move off along Beechwood Avenue 180 yards
2. 2
  Turn right into Judge Heath Lane 0.2 miles
3. 3
  At Barra Hall Circus, take the 2nd exit onto Freemans Lane 0.3 miles
  Approach in the left lane and signal left.
4. 4
  Turn left into Church Road 0.4 miles
5. 5
  Turn right into Uxbridge Road 0.8 miles
6. 6
  At the roundabout, take the 1st exit onto The Parkway 0.3 miles
  No signal on the approach. Keep left unless the markings say otherwise, then signal left after the exit before yours.
7. 7
  Turn right to stay on The Parkway 0.5 miles
8. 8
  At the roundabout, take the 3rd exit onto Willow Tree Lane 150 yards
  No signal on the approach. Keep left unless the markings say otherwise, then signal left after the exit before yours.
9. 9
  Turn right to stay on Willow Tree Lane 70 yards
10. 10
  Turn left into Cygnet Way 130 yards
11. 11
  Turn into the test centre.
12. You are back at the test centre. Park where you started.

Stop only where it is safe and legal, and read the signs: a car park is somebody's, and a residential street has driveways and junctions to stay clear of.

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Route 3 · White Hart → Apple Tree Roundabout → Colham Roundabout

White Hart, Apple Tree and Colham

East to White Hart first and then the full run west through Yiewsley. Longer than the first three, and holding concentration is most of what it asks for.

10.6 milesabout 54 min

Test centre1Stops

Send to my navigator on WhatsApp

Drive it in 4 legs

Each button opens one leg in Google Maps. A leg ends at a stop with something to practise, so do the leg, park, do the manoeuvre, then open the next.

Leg 1 · 2.7 milesTo Fairholme Crescent Open inGoogle Maps

Pull up on the left, then move off again

First exit at the mini roundabout on Lansbury Drive, just after the turn from Kingshill Avenue
Kingshill Avenue is long and residential with parked cars either side. Judge the gaps rather than stopping for everything.
Directions for the passenger, leg 18 steps
1. 1
  Start on the test centre access road 280 yards
2. 2
  Turn right into Cygnet Way 140 yards
3. 3
  Turn left into Willow Tree Lane 80 yards
4. 4
  At the roundabout, take the 3rd exit onto The Parkway 0.7 miles
  Approach in the left lane and signal left.
5. 5
  At White Hart, take the 1st exit onto Yeading Lane 0.3 miles
  Approach in the left lane and signal left.
6. 6
  At the roundabout, take the 2nd exit onto Kingshill Avenue 1.0 miles
  Approach in the left lane and signal left.
7. 7
  Turn left into Lansbury Drive 250 yards
8. 8
  Turn left into Fairholme Crescent 150 yards
9. Stop here: Pull up on the left, then move off again.
Leg 2 · 3.5 milesTo Apple Tree Avenue Open inGoogle Maps

Reverse park behind a parked car

Right off Birch Avenue, before the roundabout at Park View Road
Uxbridge Road, then estate roads from Pield Heath Road onwards. Royal Lane is narrow with parked cars on both sides, so hold back and let oncoming traffic through.
Directions for the passenger, leg 210 steps
1. 1
  Check your mirrors and blind spot, then move off along Fairholme Crescent 140 yards
2. 2
  Turn right into Leamington Place 160 yards
3. 3
  Carry on into Lansbury Drive 0.5 miles
4. 4
  Turn right into Uxbridge Road 1.3 miles
5. 5
  Turn left into Lees Road 0.3 miles
6. 6
  At the roundabout, take the 1st exit onto A437 30 yards
  Approach in the left lane and signal left.
7. 7
  At the roundabout, take the 2nd exit onto Pield Heath Road 0.5 miles
  Approach in the left lane and signal left.
8. 8
  Turn left into Royal Lane 0.5 miles
9. 9
  Turn left into Birch Avenue 160 yards
10. 10
  Turn right into Apple Tree Avenue 120 yards
11. Stop here: Reverse park behind a parked car.
Leg 3 · 2.2 milesTo Park Road Open inGoogle Maps

Pull up on the right, reverse two car lengths, then rejoin

Left off Uxbridge Road heading back towards Hayes End, beside Park Road Green
You join Uxbridge Road with a right turn from West Drayton Road. Wait for a proper gap in both directions.
Directions for the passenger, leg 36 steps
1. 1
  Check your mirrors and blind spot, then move off along Apple Tree Avenue 210 yards
2. 2
  At Apple Tree Roundabout, take the 1st exit onto Stockley Road
  Approach in the left lane and signal left.
3. 3
  At Colham Roundabout, take the 2nd exit onto Stockley Road 320 yards
  Approach in the left lane and signal left.
4. 4
  At the roundabout, take the 1st exit onto West Drayton Road 1.0 miles
  Approach in the left lane and signal left.
5. 5
  Turn right into Uxbridge Road 0.5 miles
6. 6
  Turn left into Park Road 250 yards
7. Stop here: Pull up on the right, reverse two car lengths, then rejoin.
Leg 4 · 2.3 milesBack to the test centre Open inGoogle Maps
The last leg. Nothing to do at the end of it but park.
Directions for the passenger, leg 48 steps
1. 1
  Check your mirrors and blind spot, then move off along Park Road 200 yards
2. 2
  Turn left into Uxbridge Road 1.1 miles
3. 3
  At the roundabout, take the 1st exit onto The Parkway 0.3 miles
  No signal on the approach. Keep left unless the markings say otherwise, then signal left after the exit before yours.
4. 4
  Turn right to stay on The Parkway 0.5 miles
5. 5
  At the roundabout, take the 3rd exit onto Willow Tree Lane 150 yards
  No signal on the approach. Keep left unless the markings say otherwise, then signal left after the exit before yours.
6. 6
  Turn right to stay on Willow Tree Lane 70 yards
7. 7
  Turn left into Cygnet Way 130 yards
8. 8
  Turn into the test centre.
9. You are back at the test centre. Park where you started.

Stop only where it is safe and legal, and read the signs: a car park is somebody's, and a residential street has driveways and junctions to stay clear of.

Before you drive it

Watch somebody else drive Yeading first

Instructors film these roads constantly. Watch for the roads: which roundabout, which multi-lane approach, where the lanes split. Not for a sequence to memorise, because the sequence is the one thing that changes.

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Where the roads come from

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Distances and times are calculated, not driven. The turns between the junctions are worked out by OSRM, an open source router running on that same map data. The times assume town-centre averages, so treat them as a rough guide.

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Somewhere real to practise

Before you drive any of these

You drive. Somebody else reads.

Target and White Hart

Drive it in 4 legs

Apple Tree, Colham and Barra Hall

Drive it in 4 legs

White Hart, Apple Tree and Colham

Drive it in 4 legs

Watch somebody else drive Yeading first

You are already on Driving Test Hero

Is your Yeading test on the right date?

Where the roads come from