Behind the wheel in Northampton
Northampton DTCDriving test practice routes
Make the roads around your test centre feel familiar. Compare routes, plan your practice and find your next drive.
Explore 20 routes- Practice routes
- 20
- Average length
- 9.6 mi
- Longest route
- 12.4 mi
Meet your practice companion
Know the route.
Focus on the road.
Take all 20 Northampton DTC routes with you in UK Routes. Pick a route, hear the next turn and build familiarity with every drive.
- Turn-by-turn voice guidance
- Offline maps, once your route is downloaded
- One route at this centre, free to practise

Plan your next practice
Find your next route.
20 routes at Northampton DTC.
Compare the distance and junctions before you set off.
Practice routes, not official DVSA test routes. Your examiner may take a different route on the day.
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Route 1 (NEW)
Free route
- Route length
- 9.5 mi15.2 km
- Roundabouts
- 4
- Mini-roundabouts
- 3
- Traffic lights
- 15
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Route 2
Free route
- Route length
- 12.4 mi20.0 km
- Roundabouts
- 11
- Mini-roundabouts
- 0
- Traffic lights
- 7
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Route 3
Free route
- Route length
- 7.9 mi12.7 km
- Roundabouts
- 13
- Mini-roundabouts
- 1
- Traffic lights
- 17
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Route 4
Free route
- Route length
- 9.1 mi14.7 km
- Roundabouts
- 3
- Mini-roundabouts
- 2
- Traffic lights
- 8
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Route 5
Free route
- Route length
- 11.7 mi18.9 km
- Roundabouts
- 11
- Mini-roundabouts
- 0
- Traffic lights
- 10
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Route 6 (NEW)
Free route
- Route length
- 8.9 mi14.4 km
- Roundabouts
- 4
- Mini-roundabouts
- 0
- Traffic lights
- 11
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Route 7
Free route
- Route length
- 9.3 mi15.0 km
- Roundabouts
- 11
- Mini-roundabouts
- 0
- Traffic lights
- 6
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Route 8 (NEW)
Free route
- Route length
- 9.3 mi15.0 km
- Roundabouts
- 13
- Mini-roundabouts
- 0
- Traffic lights
- 6
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Route 9
Free route
- Route length
- 8.2 mi13.2 km
- Roundabouts
- 12
- Mini-roundabouts
- 1
- Traffic lights
- 22
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Route 10 (NEW)
Free route
- Route length
- 10.6 mi17.0 km
- Roundabouts
- 4
- Mini-roundabouts
- 0
- Traffic lights
- 13
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Route 11 (NEW)
Free route
- Route length
- 10.0 mi16.1 km
- Roundabouts
- 7
- Mini-roundabouts
- 4
- Traffic lights
- 13
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Route 12 (NEW)
Free route
- Route length
- 8.9 mi14.3 km
- Roundabouts
- 13
- Mini-roundabouts
- 0
- Traffic lights
- 24
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Route 13
Free route
- Route length
- 10.3 mi16.5 km
- Roundabouts
- 10
- Mini-roundabouts
- 1
- Traffic lights
- 6
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Route 14 (NEW)
Free route
- Route length
- 9.0 mi14.5 km
- Roundabouts
- 6
- Mini-roundabouts
- 1
- Traffic lights
- 8
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Route 15 (NEW)
Free route
- Route length
- 11.6 mi18.7 km
- Roundabouts
- 16
- Mini-roundabouts
- 0
- Traffic lights
- 8
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Route 16
Free route
- Route length
- 5.7 mi9.1 km
- Roundabouts
- 1
- Mini-roundabouts
- 1
- Traffic lights
- 17
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Route 17 (NEW)
Free route
- Route length
- 8.6 mi13.9 km
- Roundabouts
- 5
- Mini-roundabouts
- 1
- Traffic lights
- 16
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Route 18 (NEW)
Free route
- Route length
- 8.2 mi13.1 km
- Roundabouts
- 10
- Mini-roundabouts
- 0
- Traffic lights
- 5
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Route 19 (NEW)
Free route
- Route length
- 10.5 mi16.8 km
- Roundabouts
- 6
- Mini-roundabouts
- 3
- Traffic lights
- 19
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Route 20 (NEW)
Free route
- Route length
- 11.3 mi18.2 km
- Roundabouts
- 6
- Mini-roundabouts
- 2
- Traffic lights
- 29
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Junctions to practise carefully
The busiest junctions on the Northampton DTC routes.
Practise them with your instructor before test day.
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Towcester Road (A5123) / Horse Shoe Street (A508)
Roundabout · on 3 of 20 routes
17 reported injury collisions (2021–2025)
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Balfour Road
Traffic lights · on 2 of 20 routes
14 reported injury collisions (2021–2025)
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Harlestone Road (A428)
Junction · on 4 of 20 routes
13 reported injury collisions (2021–2025)
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Harborough Road (A508) / Mill Lane
Traffic lights · on 7 of 20 routes
12 reported injury collisions (2021–2025)
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Upton Way (A5076)
Roundabout · on 2 of 20 routes
11 reported injury collisions (2021–2025)
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Danes Camp Way (A5076)
Roundabout · on 1 of 20 routes
10 reported injury collisions (2021–2025)
Police-reported injury collisions within about 60 m of each junction, from the Department for Transport's road casualty statistics (STATS19). Busy junctions naturally see more collisions; the counts do not take traffic volume into account.
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Distances from Northampton DTC,
not driving route lengths.
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- 29 km
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