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 Halifax below.
While test routes around Halifax 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 |
|---|---|
| DTC | Right |
| Cross St West | Right |
| Highgate Gardens / Reservoir Rd | Right |
| Spring Hall Lane | Left |
| Warley Rd | T/L left |
| Burnley Rd | T/L ahead |
| Aachen Way | T/L ahead, T/L right |
| Haugh Shaw Rd | Mini roundabout left, mini roundabout right |
| Savile Park Rd | Left |
| Free School Lane | Right |
| Queens Gate | Left |
| Manor Heath Rd | Right, right |
| Skircoat Green Rd | Mini roundabout ahead, right |
| Lawrence Rd | Right |
| Skircoat Green Rd | Left |
| Godfrey Rd | Left |
| Dudwell Lane | T/L left |
| Huddersfield Rd | T/L ahead, T/L right |
| Shaw Hill / Shay Skye | Mini roundabout right |
| Water Lane / Swan Bank Lane / Bailey Hall Rd / Berry Lane | Mini roundabout right |
| Lower Kirkgate / King St | Right |
| Winding Rd | T/L left |
| Northgate | T/L ahead |
| Broad St | T/L ahead, T/L right |
| Pellon Lane / Pellon New Rd | Left |
| Stretchgate Lane | Right |
| Road | Direction |
|---|---|
| DTC | Right |
| Cross St West / Reservoir Rd | Right |
| Spring Hall Lane | Left |
| Warley Rd | Left |
| Parkinson Lane | T/L right |
| Queens Rd | T/L right |
| Aachen Way | T/L ahead |
| Rochdale Rd / Upper Bolton Brow | Mini roundabout left |
| Pye Nest Rd | Right |
| Edwards Rd / Upper Washer Lane / Scar Bottom Rd | Left |
| Birdcage Hill | 2 nd left |
| Kensington Rd | Left |
| Birdcage Lane | T/L left |
| Skircoat Moor Rd | Roundabout ahead |
| Skircoat Moor Rd | T/L 2 nd Left |
| Burnley Rd | Right |
| Windle Royd Lane | Right |
| Stock Lane / Gibbet St | Left |
| Spring Hall Lane | Crossroads left |
| Reservoir Rd |
| Road | Direction |
|---|---|
| DTC | Left |
| Cross St West | Right |
| Pellon New Rd | Left |
| Spring Hall Lane | Left |
| Pellon Lane / Brackenbed Lane | Right |
| Hebble Lane | Right |
| Shroggs Rd | T/L right |
| Ovenden Rd | Roundabout 2 nd exit |
| Orange St | T/L left |
| Broad St | Right 2 nd T/L |
| Winding St / Square Rd | 2 x T/L ahead |
| Church St | Mini roundabout left |
| South Parade | Mini roundabout ahead |
| Shay Skye | Right |
| Free School Lane | T/L ahead, mini roundabout left |
| Heath Rd | Right |
| Linden Rd | Left |
| Clifton Rd | Right |
| Linden Rd | Left |
| Heath Rd | Mini roundabout left |
| Free School Lane | Right |
| Saville Park St | Right |
| Free School Lane | Left |
| Burnley Rd | Right |
| Windle Royd Lane | Right |
| Stock Lane | EOR ahead |
| Gibbet St | Left |
| Spring Hall Lane | Crossroads left |
| Reservoir Rd / Cross St West |
| Road | Direction |
|---|---|
| DTC | Left |
| Cross St West | Left |
| Moorend Rd | Right |
| Sandbeds Rd | Mini roundabout right |
| Highroad Well Lane | Mini roundabout ahead, left |
| Court Lane | Left |
| Gibbet St | Right |
| Westholme Rd | Right |
| Gibbet St | T/L right |
| Queens Rd | T/L right |
| Aachen Way | T/L ahead |
| Rochdale Rd | Left |
| Pye Nest Rd | Mini roundabout right |
| Upper Bolton Brow | Left |
| Willowfield Drive | Left |
| Willowfield Rd / Willow Drive | Left |
| Burnley Rd | Right |
| Windle Royd Lane | Left |
| Stock Lane / Warley Town Lane / Workhouse Lane / Heath Hill Rd | Right |
| Moorend Rd | Crossroads right |
| Sandbeds Rd | Mini roundabout left |
| Stretchgate Lane | Left |
| Cross St West |
| Road | Direction |
|---|---|
| DTC | Left |
| Cross St West | Right |
| Pellon New Rd | Right |
| Spring Hall Lane | Right |
| Gibbet St | Left |
| Warley Rd | T/L left |
| Burnley Rd | T/L right |
| Skircoat Moor Rd | T/L left |
| Free School Lane | Left |
| Elmfield Terrace | Left |
| Free School Lane | T/L left |
| Savile Park Rd | Mini roundabout ahead |
| Arden Rd / Swires Rd | T/L left |
| King Cross Rd / Aachen Way | T/L ahead, T/L right |
| Queens Rd | T/L ahead, T/L left |
| Hopwood Lane | Right |
| Warley Rd | Left |
| Gibbet St / Highroad Well Lane / Roils | |
| Head Rd | Right |
| Roils Head Rd | Left, ahead |
| Heath Hill Rd | Right |
| Moorend Rd | Crossroad right |
| Sandbeds Rd | Mini roundabout left |
| Stretchgate Lane | Crossroads left |
| Cross St West |
| Road | Direction |
|---|---|
| DTC | Left |
| Cross St West | Right |
| Pellon New Rd | Left |
| Spring Hall Lane | Left |
| Pellon Lane | Right |
| Brackenbed Lane | Right |
| Hebble Lane | Left |
| Shroggs Rd | Right |
| Wheatley Rd | Right |
| Ovenden Way | T/L right |
| Ovenden Rd | T/L ahead, roundabout ahead |
| Orange St | T/L ahead |
| Waterhouse St | Right |
| Silver St | Right |
| Central St | T/L ahead |
| Pellon Lane | 2 x T/L ahead |
| Pellon Lane / Pellon New Rd / Morrend Rd | Left |
| Heath Hill Rd | Crossroads left |
| Roils Head Rd | Left |
| Vicar Park Rd | Left |
| Roils Head Rd | Becomes |
| Roils Head Rd / Highroad Well Lane | 2 x mini roundabout ahead, mini roundabout right |
| Stretchgate Lane | Left |
| Cross St West |
| Road | Direction |
|---|---|
| DTC | Left |
| Cross St West | Left |
| Moorend Rd | Left |
| Sandbeds Rd / Highroad Well Lane | Roundabout ahead, left |
| Sandhall Lane | Left |
| Gibbet St | Right |
| Warley Rd | T/L left |
| Burnley Rd | T/L right |
| Skircoat Moor Rd | Roundabout ahead, T/L right |
| Birdcage Lane | Right |
| Kensington Rd | Right |
| Birdcage Lane / Birdcage Hill | Right |
| Scar Bottom Rd / Upper Washer Lane | |
| / Edwards Rd | Right |
| Pye Nest Rd | Left |
| Rochdale Rd / Upper Bolton Brow | Mini roundabout left |
| Pye Nest Rd | Right |
| Rochdale Rd | T/L ahead |
| Aachen Way | T/L left |
| Queens Rd | T/L ahead, T/L right |
| Hopwood Lane | Right |
| Westholme Rd / Thrum Hall Lane | Roundabout ahead |
| Hanson Lane | Right |
| Spring Hall Lane | Left |
| Reservoir Rd / Cross St West |
| Road | Direction |
|---|---|
| DTC | Left |
| Cross St West | Right |
| Pellon New Rd | Left |
| Spring Hall Lane | Left |
| Pellon Lane / Brackenbed Lane | Right |
| Hebble Lane | Left |
| Shroggs Rd / Wheatley Rd | Right |
| Ramsden St | Right |
| Denfield Lane | Right |
| Denfield Ave | Right |
| Denfield Lane | Mini roundabout ahead, mini roundabout right |
| Nursery Lane | T/L left |
| Keighley Rd | Right |
| Beechwood Rd | Right |
| Shay Lane | Left |
| Ovenden Rd | T/L ahead, T/L right |
| Shroggs Rd | Left |
| Lee Bridge / Dean Clough / Cross Hills | T/L right |
| Northgate | T/L ahead, right |
| Broad St | 2 x T/L ahead |
| Cow Green | Roundabout right |
| Bull Green /King Cross St | T/L ahead |
| King Cross Rd / Aachen Way | T/L ahead, T/L right |
| Queens Rd | 2 x T/L ahead, T/L left |
| Gibbet St | 2 x crossroad right |
| Springhall Lane | Left |
| Reservoir Rd / Cross St West |
| Road | Direction |
|---|---|
| DTC | Left |
| Cross St West | Left |
| Pellon New Rd | Right |
| Sandbeds Rd | Mini roundabout right |
| Highroad Well Lane | Mini roundabout ahead, roundabout right |
| Paddock Lane | Roundabout right |
| Court Lane | Left |
| Gibbet St | Left |
| Newstead Terrace | Left |
| Gibbet St | T/L right |
| Queens Rd | 2 x T/L ahead, left |
| King Cross Rd | Left, T/L ahead, left, ahead |
| Bull Green | Roundabout right |
| Fountain St | T/L ahead |
| Wards End / Horton St | T/L left |
| Square Rd | T/L ahead |
| Winding Rd | T/L right |
| Northgate | T/L left |
| Cross Hills / Dean Clough / Lee Bridge | Right |
| Shroggs Rd | T/L left |
| Ovenden Rd | Left |
| Wheatley Lane / Wheatley Rd | Right, left |
| City Lane | Crossroads ahead |
| Brackenbed Lane / Pellon Lane | Right |
| Springhall Lane | Right |
| Pellon New Rd | Left |
| Stretchgate Lane | Right |
| Cross St West |
| Road | Direction |
|---|---|
| DTC | Left |
| Cross St West | Right |
| Pellon New Rd | Right |
| Spring Hall Lane | Right |
| Warley Rd | Right |
| Gibbet St | Right |
| Westholme Rd | Right |
| Gibbet St | T/L right |
| Queens Rd | 2 x T/L ahead, left |
| King Cross Rd | Left, T/L ahead, left |
| King Cross St / Bull Green | Roundabout left |
| Cow Green | T/L ahead |
| Broad St | T/L left |
| Orange St | Roundabout ahead |
| Ovenden Rd | 2 x T/L ahead, T/L left |
| Nursery Lane | Mini roundabout ahead, mini roundabout right |
| Denfield Lane | Left |
| Ramsden St / Wheatley Rd / Shroggs Rd | Right |
| Hebble Lane | Crossroads left |
| Brackenbed Lane / Pellon Lane | Right |
| Spring Hall Lane | Right |
| Pellon New Rd | Left |
| Stretchgate Lane | Right |
| Cross St West |
| Road | Direction |
|---|---|
| DTC | Right |
| Cross St West / Reservoir Rd | Right |
| Spring Hall Lane | Left |
| Warley Rd | Left |
| Hopwood Lane | Left |
| Westholme Rd | Left |
| Hopwood Lane | T/L right |
| Queens Rd | T/L ahead, T/L right |
| Aachen Way | Left |
| Skircoat Moor Rd | Roundabout ahead, left |
| Savile Park Rd | Right |
| Manor Heath Rd | Right, left |
| Linden Rd | Right |
| Bath Rd | Left |
| Heath Rd | Mini roundabout right |
| Free School Lane | T/L ahead, left |
| Shaw Hill / Shay Syke | Roundabout ahead |
| South Parade | Roundabout ahead |
| Church St | T/L ahead |
| Square Rd / Winding Rd | T/L ahead, T/L left |
| Northgate | T/L right |
| Broad St | T/L right |
| Orange St | Roundabout left |
| Burdock Way / King Cross Rd / Aachen Way | 3 rd T/L right |
| Queens Rd | 3 rd T/L right |
| Gibbet St | Crossroads ahead, crossroads right |
| Spring Hall Lane | Left |
| Reservoir Rd / Cross St West |
| Road | Direction |
|---|---|
| DTC | Right |
| Cross St West / Reservoir Rd | Right |
| Spring Hall Lane | Right |
| Gibbet St | Left |
| Warley Rd | T/L right |
| Burnley Rd | Left |
| Bairstow Lane | Right |
| Steps Lane | Left |
| Wood Nook Lane | Left |
| Park Rd | Right |
| Gratrix Lane | Left |
| Bolton Brow | T/L right |
| Wakefield Rd | Mini roundabout left |
| Stainland Rd / Huddersfield Rd / Salterhebble Hill / Huddersfield Rd | T/L left |
| Dryclough Lane | Mini roundabout ahead |
| Skircoat Moor Rd | Left |
| Lea Ave | Left |
| Skircoat Moor Rd | T/L ahead, mini roundabout ahead, T/L right |
| Aachen Way | T/L left |
| Queens Rd | 3 rd T/L right |
| Gibbet St | Crossroad right |
| Spring Hall Lane | Crossroads ahead, left |
| Reservoir Rd / Cross St West |
| Road | Direction |
|---|---|
| DTC | Right |
| Cross St West / Reservoir Rd | Right |
| Spring Hall Lane | Left |
| Newstead Ave | Left |
| Gibbet St | Right |
| Westholme Rd | Right |
| Hopwood Lane | Left |
| Warley Rd | T/L right |
| Burnley Rd | Left |
| Albert Rd | Crossroads ahead, left |
| Beech Rd / Park Rd | Right |
| Gratrix Lane | Left |
| Bolton Brow | T/L ahead, left |
| Upper Bolton Brow / Rochdale Rd | Left |
| Woodlands Drive | Left |
| Willowfield Ave | Right |
| Woodlands Drive | Left |
| Rochdale Rd | T/L ahead |
| Aachen Way / Kingcross Rd / Kingcross St / Bull Green | Roundabout left |
| Cow Green | T/L left |
| Pellon Lane | 3 x T/L ahead |
| Pellon New Rd | Left |
| Stretchgate Lane | Right |
| Cross St West |
| Road | Direction |
|---|---|
| DTC | Right |
| Cross St West / Reservoir Rd | Right |
| Spring Hall Lane | Left |
| Warley Rd | Left |
| Parkinson Lane | Right |
| Stanley Rd | Crossroads ahead, left |
| Warley Rd | T/L left |
| Burnley Rd | T/L ahead |
| Aachen Way | T/L ahead, T/L right |
| Haugh Shaw Rd | Mini roundabout left, mini roundabout right |
| Savile Park Rd | Left |
| Free School Lane | Mini roundabout right |
| Heath Rd / Skircoat Green Rd | Mini roundabout ahead, right |
| Lawrence Rd | Right |
| Skircoat Green Rd | Right |
| Copley Lane | T/L left |
| Wakefield Rd | Mini roundabout left |
| Stainland Rd / Huddersfield Rd / Salterhebble Hill / Huddersfield Rd | T/L ahead, T/L right |
| Shaw Hill / Shay Syke | Roundabout ahead |
| South Parade | Roundabout left |
| Prescott St | T/L right |
| Portland Place / Commercial St | Left |
| Fountain St | Roundabout ahead |
| Cow Green | T/L left |
| Pellon Lane | 3 x T/L ahead |
| Pellon New Rd | Left |
| Stretchgate Lane | Right |
| Cross St West |
| Road | Direction |
|---|---|
| DTC | Right |
| Cross St West / Reservoir Rd | Right |
| Spring Hall Lane | Left |
| Warley Rd | T/L left |
| Burnley Rd | T/L ahead |
| King Cross Rd | 2 x T/L ahead |
| King Cross St | Left, ahead |
| Bull Green | Roundabout right |
| Fountain St | T/L ahead |
| Wards End / Horton St | T/L left |
| Square Rd | Right |
| Alfred St East / Church St | Mini roundabout left |
| Lower Kirkgate | Right |
| Bank Bottom / Charlestown Rd | Roundabout ahead |
| Haley Hill / Boothtown Rd | Left |
| Chester Rd | Left |
| Boothtown Rd | 2 nd left |
| Crown Rd | Left |
| Mill Lane / Broad Tree Rd | Left |
| Ovenden Rd | T/L ahead, T/L right |
| Shroggs Rd / Wheatley Rd | Crossroads left |
| Lane Ends | Left |
| Long Lane | Right |
| Brackenbed Lane | Left |
| Pellon Lane | Right |
| Spring Hall Lane | Crossroads ahead, 2 nd right |
| Reservoir Rd |