To make driving tests more representative of real-life driving, the DVSA no longer publishes official test routes. However, you can find a number of recent routes used at Southampton (Forest Hills) below.
While test routes around Southampton (Forest Hills) are likely to be very similar to our compiled list, you should treat this content as a rough guide only. Exact test routes are at the examiners’ discretion and are subject to change.
Road | Direction |
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DTC | Left |
Forest Hills Drive | Mini roundabout right |
Woodmill Lane | Mini roundabout ahead |
Woodmill Lane | T/L left |
Portswood Rd | Right |
Harefield Rd | EOR left |
Woodcote Rd | Left |
Harrison Rd | EOR right |
Woodcote Rd | EOR left |
Burgess Rd | Right |
Tulip Rd | EOR left |
Honeysuckle Rd | Right |
Daisy Rd / Lobelia Rd | EOR left |
Bassett Green Rd | Roundabout left |
Bassett Ave | Roundabout ahead, 2 nd T/L left |
Highfield Ave / Highfield Lane | Mini roundabout ahead |
Highfield Lane | T/L crossroads right |
Portswood Rd | T/L ahead, T/L left |
Slip Rd | Left |
Thomas Lewis Way | T/L ahead, T/L right |
St Denys Rd / Cobden Bridge | T/L left |
Manor Farm Rd | Mini roundabout right |
Woodmill Lane | Mini roundabout left |
Forest Hills Drive | Right |
Road | Direction |
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DTC | Right |
Forest Hills Drive / Meggeson Ave | EOR right |
Townhill Way | Roundabout left |
West End Rd | Right |
Hatley Rd / Taunton Drive | Left |
Somerton Avenue | EOR right |
Taunton Drive | 2 nd right |
Wynter Rd | EOR right |
West End Rd | 2 nd left |
Chalk Hill | T/L right |
Church Hill / Moorhill Rd | Roundabout right 4 th exit |
Thornhill Park Rd | 4 th left |
Upper Deacon Rd | T/L EOR right |
Burlesdon Rd / Maybray King Way | 2 x T/L ahead, T/L slip road left |
End Of Slip Rd | T/L right |
West End Rd | Roundabout left |
Mousehole Lane / Cobden Ave | 4 th right |
Manor Farm Rd (Bitterne Triangle) | EOR right |
Manor Farm Rd | Mini roundabout right |
Woodmill Rd | Mini roundabout left |
Forest Hills Drive | Right |
Road | Direction |
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DTC | Right |
Forest Hills Drive / Meggeson Ave | EOR right |
Townhill Way | Roundabout left |
West End Rd | 2 nd right |
Wynter Rd | EOR left |
Taunton Drive | Right |
Shales Rd | EOR left |
Commercial St | EOR left |
Bitterne Rd East / Thornhill Park Rd | Right |
Thornhill Ave | EOR right |
Byron Rd | 2 nd left |
Farringford Rd | Left |
Burns Rd / Shelley Rd | EOR right |
Browning Ave | EOR left |
Hinkler Rd | T/L right |
Thornhill Park Rd | Roundabout right 4 th exit |
Kanes Hill / West End Rd | Roundabout right 4 th exit |
Bursledon Rd / Maybray King Way | 2 x T/L ahead, T/L slip road left |
Slip Rd | EOR T/L right |
West End Rd | Roundabout left |
Mousehole Lane | Right |
Witts Hill | Right |
Vanguard Rd | Left |
Lytham Rd | EOR left |
Onibury Rd | EOR right |
Wakefield Rd | EOR left |
Meggeson Ave / Forest Hills Drive | Left |
Road | Direction |
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DTC | Right |
Forest Hills Drive / Meggeson Ave | 3 rd right |
Wakefield Rd | EOR left |
Witts Hill | 3 rd right, right |
Mousehole Lane | 2 nd left |
Glenfield Ave | EOR left |
Maybray King Way / Bursledon Rd | 2 x T/L ahead, T/L right |
Ruby Rd / Middle Rd | EOR right |
Station Rd | T/L right |
Portsmouth Rd | Roundabout left, T/L right |
Bridge Rd / Peartree Ave | Mini roundabout ahead |
Peartree Ave | Mini roundabout left |
Athelstan Rd | 2 x T/L ahead |
Bullar Rd | Left, left |
Cobden Ave / Cobden Bridge / St | |
Denys Rd | T/L ahead, T/L right |
Thomas Lewis Way | T/L ahead, T/L left, T/L right |
Portswood Rd | T/L right |
Woodmill Lane | Mini roundabout ahead, mini roundabout left |
Forest Hills Drive | Right |
Road | Direction |
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DTC | Right |
Forest Hills Drive / Meggeson | |
Avenue | 3rd right |
Wakefield Rd | EOR left |
Witts Hill | EOR left |
Mousehole Lane | Roundabout ahead 2nd exit |
West End Rd | Right |
Hatley Rd / Taunton Rd | Right |
Shales Rd | EOR left |
Commercial St | EOR left |
Bitterne Rd East / Thornhill Park Rd | Roundabout left |
Moorhill Rd / Church Hill | T/L ahead |
Swaythling Rd | Roundabout ahead 2 nd exit |
Swaythling Rd / Mansbridge Rd | Roundabout left |
High Rd | T/L ahead, left |
Stoneham Way | T/L left |
Thomas Lewis Way | T/L ahead, T/L right |
Thomas Lewis Way | EOR right |
Portswood Rd | Right |
Kent Rd | 2nd left |
Priory Rd | T/L left |
Cobden Bridge | T/L left |
Manor Farm Rd | Mini roundabout right |
Woodmill Lane | Mini roundabout left |
Forest Hills Drive | Right |
Road | Direction |
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DTC | Right |
Forest Hills Drive / Meggeson | |
Avenue | 3 rd right |
Wakefield Rd | Right |
Cornwall Rd | EOR right |
Woodmill Lane | 2nd left |
Oaktree Rd / St Catherines Rd | Right |
Bond Rd | EOR left |
Manor Farm Rd | T/L ahead |
Cobden Bridge / St Denys Rd | T/L ahead / T/L right |
Thomas Lewis Way | T/L left, T/L right |
Portswood Rd | Left |
Bowden Lane / Welbeck Avenue | Becomes |
University Rd | EOR left |
Burgess Rd | T/L ahead. T/L right |
Bassett Avenue | Roundabout ahead 3rd exit |
Bassett Avenue | Roundabout right 2nd exit |
Bassett Green Rd | T/L right |
Stoneham Lane | T/L right |
High Rd | T/L left |
High Rd | T/L left |
Woodmill Lane | Mini roundabout ahead |
Woodmill Lane | Mini roundabout left |
Forest Hills Drive | Right |
Road | Direction |
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DTC | Right |
Forest Hills Drive / Meggeson | |
Avenue | EOR right |
Townhill Way | Roundabout left |
West End Rd | 3 rd right |
Selborne Avenue | EOR right |
Exford Avenue | Right |
Somerton Avenue | EOR right |
Exford Avenue | EOR left |
Somerset Avenue | Right |
Cheriton Avenue | 3 rd right |
Bramdean Rd | 2 nd right |
Pine Drive | EOR left |
Thornhill Park Rd | Roundabout ahead 2 nd exit |
Charles Watts Way | Roundabout ahead 2 nd exit |
Charles Watts Way | Roundabout left |
Tollbar Way | 2 nd roundabout ahead 2 nd exit |
Tollbar Way | Roundabout left |
Botley Rd / High Street | 2 nd T/L ahead |
Chalk Hill | EOR right |
West End Rd | Roundabout right 3 rd exit |
Townhill Way | 2 nd left |
Meggeson Avenue / Forest Hills | |
Drive | Left |
Road | Direction |
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DTC | Right |
Forest Hills Drive / Meggeson | |
Avenue | EOR left |
Townhill Way | Roundabout left |
Townhill Way | 2 nd roundabout ahead 2 nd exit |
Townhill Way | Roundabout right 3 rd exit |
Townhill Way | Roundabout ahead 2 nd exit |
Townhill Way | Roundabout left |
Swaythling Rd / Mansbridge Rd | Roundabout right 2 nd exit |
Wide Lane | Roundabout left |
Wide Lane | Roundabout right 2 nd exit |
Wide Lane / Southampton Rd | 3 rd left |
Chestnut Avenue | Roundabout ahead |
Chestnut Avenue | Roundabout left |
Stoneham Lane | Roundabout ahead 3 rd exit |
Stoneham Way / High Rd | 3 rd T/L ahead, T/L right |
Burgess Rd | 2nd left |
Woodcote Rd | EOR right |
Burgess Rd | 1st right |
Langhorn Rd | T/L ahead |
Woodmill Lane | Mini roundabout ahead |
Woodmill Lane | Mini roundabout left |
Forest Hills Drive | Left |
River Walk | EOR right |
BRdwater Rd | EOR left |
Forest Hills Drive | Right |
Road | Direction |
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DTC | Right |
Forest Hills Drive / Meggeson Ave | EOR right |
Townhill Way | Roundabout left |
West End Rd | Right |
Hatley Rd / Taunton Drive | Left |
Somerton Ave | EOR right |
Taunton Drive | 2 nd right |
Wynter Rd | EOR right |
West End Rd | EOR left |
Church Hill | T/L right |
West End High St | 3 x mini roundabouts ahead |
Botley Rd | Roundabout right 3 rd exit |
Tollbar Way | 2 x roundabouts ahead, roundabout right |
Charles Watts Way | Roundabout ahead 3 rd exit, roundabout right 4 th exit |
Moorhill Rd / Church Hill | T/L left |
Chalk Hill | EOR right |
West End Rd | Roundabout right 2 nd exit |
Mousehole Lane | Right |
Witts Hill | 2 nd right |
Wakefield Rd | EOR left |
Meggeson Ave / Forest Hills Drive | Left |
Road | Direction |
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DTC | Left |
Forest Hills Drive | Mini roundabout right |
Woodmill Lane | Mini roundabout ahead, right |
Wessex Lane | EOR T/L right |
High Rd | Roundabout right 3 rd exit, T/L ahead |
(Slip Rd) | |
Stoneham Way | T/L ahead |
High Rd | 2 x T/L ahead |
Portswood Rd | T/L,13 th right (at T/L) |
Brookvale Rd | Roundabout left |
Blenheim Ave | 2 nd right |
Oakmount Ave | EOR left |
Blenheim Ave | Roundabout right 2 nd exit |
Brookvale Rd | Right |
Winn Rd | EOR left |
The Avenue | T/L 4 th left |
Lodge Rd | T/L ahead, T/L left |
Thomas Lewis Way | T/L ahead, T/L right |
St Denys Rd / Cobden Bridge | T/L left |
Manor Farm Rd | Mini roundabout right |
Woodmill Lane | Mini roundabout left |
Forest Hills Drive | Right |
Road | Direction |
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DTC | Right |
Forest Hills Drive | Right |
Old Farm Drive | EOR left |
Northfield Rd | EOR left |
Woodmill Lane | 3 rd right |
Avon Rd | Crossroads left |
Midanbury Lane | EOR left |
Mousehole Lane | Right |
Cobden Crescent | EOR right |
Glenfield Ave | EOR left |
Maybray King Way | Left, T/L left |
Peartree Ave | T/L left |
Spring Rd | 5 th left |
Heath Rd | EOR left |
Middle Rd | 4 th right |
Deacon Rd | T/L right |
Bursledon Rd | Left |
Upper Deacon Rd | EOR right |
Thornhill Park Rd | Roundabout left |
Moorhill Rd (A27) | Roundabout left 1 st exit |
Townhill Way | Roundabout ahead 2 nd exit, roundabout left, 2 x roundabout ahead, roundabout right 3 rd exit, 2 nd right |
Meggeson Ave / Forest Hills Drive | Left |
Road | Direction |
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DTC | Right |
Forest Hills Drive / Meggeson Ave | 3 rd right |
Wakefield Rd | Right |
Cornwall Rd | EOR right |
Woodmill Lane | 2 nd left |
Oaktree Rd / St Catherines Rd | Right |
Bond Rd | EOR left |
Manor Farm Rd | T/L ahead |
Cobden Bridge / St Denys Rd | T/L ahead, T/L right |
Thomas Lewis Way | T/L left, EOR right |
Portswood Rd | Left |
Bowden Lane / Welbeck Ave | 4 th left |
Church Lane | Roundabout right 2 nd exit |
Highfield Lane / Highfield Ave | EOR T/L left |
The Avenue / Inner Ave / Dorset St | Roundabout left |
Charlotte Place | EOR T/L left |
St Marys Rd | T/L right |
Onslow Rd / Bevois Valley Rd | T/L right |
Thomas Lewis Way (A335) | 2 x T/L ahead, T/L right |
St Denys Rd / Cobden Bridge | T/L left |
Manor Farm Rd | Mini roundabout right |
Woodmill Lane | Mini roundabout left |
Forest Hills Drive | Right |
Road | Direction |
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DTC | Right |
Forest Hills Drive / Meggeson Ave | 3 rd right |
Wakefield Rd | EOR left |
Witts Hill | EOR left |
Mousehole Lane | Roundabout right 3 rd exit |
West End Rd | T/L ahead |
Peartree Ave | Right |
Bitterne Way | Left |
Stoddart Ave | EOR left |
Peartree Ave | T/L right |
Spring Rd | EOR left |
Portsmouth Rd | T/L left, 3 x mini roundabout ahead, 3 rd left |
Grange Rd / Shop Lane | EOR right |
Botley Rd | T/L right |
Bursledon Rd A3024 | Roundabout left |
West End Rd A27 / Kanes Hill | Roundabout ahead 2 nd exit |
Moorhill Rd A27 | Roundabout left |
Townhill Way | Roundabout ahead 2 nd exit, roundabout left, |
2 x roundabout ahead, roundabout right 3 rd | |
exit, right | |
Meggeson Ave / Forest Hills Drive | Left |