The Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA) no longer publish learner driver or extended driving test routes for public viewing.
Detailed below are the extended driving test routes for Colchester Driving Test Centre. The test routes are developed by examiners from the actual test centre to incorporate a wide variety of roads and traffic systems.
Extended driving test routes are intended for drivers that were previously qualified but lost their licence due to disqualification. Before their licence is reinstated, a court has ruled that they must pass the extended driving test. These test routes a different from the standard learner test routes. If you would like to view the standard learner test routes, please see driving test routes.
The test routes may have altered as this is down to the discretion of the examiner, or they may remain similar or identical. Test routes are for Colchester, extended car routes 1 to 4.
Use the test routes below to form a knowledge base for the various types of roads and traffic systems that you will encounter during the practical extended driving test.
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Glossary:
- EOR – End of Road
- T/L – Traffic Lights
- DTC – Driving Test Centre
| Name of Practical Test Centre | Colchester |
|---|---|
| Type of Test Route | Extended Car |
| Name/ Number of Road | Direction |
| Driving Test Route Number | 1 |
| DTC | Left |
| Grange Way | EOR left |
| Whitehall Rd | EOR right |
| Old Heath Rd | 2 nd right |
| Barn Hall Ave | EOR left |
| Churchill Way | Left |
| Normandy Ave | EOR right |
| Mersea Rd | Roundabout left |
| Southway | Roundabout left |
| Maldon Rd / Shrub End Rd | 2 nd right |
| Norman Way | Left |
| The Commons / Church Lane | EOR left |
| Lexden Rd / London Rd | Roundabout 4 th exit |
| Tollgate Drive | Left |
| Marram Close | Right |
| Tollgate Drive | Roundabout 4 th exit |
| Essex Yeomanry Way | Roundabout ahead |
| A604 To Chappel | Left |
| Great Tey Little Tey | Left |
| A120 | Right |
| Kellers Way | Right |
| A120 | Roundabout ahead |
| A12 (About 3 Miles 2 ND Slip Rd) | Roundabout 2 nd exit |
| Cymbeline Way | Roundabout right |
| West Way | Roundabout ahead |
| Balkerne Hill | Roundabout ahead |
| Southway | Roundabout ahead |
| Magdalen St | Right |
| Military Rd / Old Heath Rd | 4 th left |
| Whitehall Rd | Right |
| Grange Way | |
| DTC | |
| Driving Test Route Number | 2 |
| DTC | Left |
| Whitehall Rd | EOR left |
| Old Heath Rd | 2 nd right |
| Abbots Rd | EOR left |
| Mersea Rd | Right |
| The Willows / Silver Thorne Close | Out right |
| The Willows | EOR right |
| Mersea Rd | Left |
| Queensland Drive | EOR right |
| Mersea Rd | 3 rd right |
| Bourne Rd | 8 th left |
| Magdalen St | Roundabout ahead |
| Southway | Roundabout 3 rd exit |
| Balkerne Hill | Roundabout ahead |
| West Way | Roundabout ahead |
| Mile Rd | Right |
| Turner Rd | EOR right |
| Mill Rd | Roundabout ahead |
| Severall Lane | EOR left |
| Ipswich Rd | Roundabout right |
| A120 (After approx 5m) | 1 st exit left |
| A133 | Roundabout right |
| Frating Rd / Elmstead Market / St Andrews Ave | Roundabout ahead, roundabout left |
| Harwich Rd | Roundabout ahead |
| East Bay | Roundabout left |
| Brook St | Left |
| Wimpole Rd | Left |
| Old Heath Rd | 4 th left |
| Whitehall Rd | Right |
| Grange Way | |
| DTC | |
| Driving Test Route Number | 3 |
| DTC | Left |
| Grange Way | EOR right |
| Whitehall Rd | EOR left |
| Haven Rd | Roundabout right |
| Eastway | Roundabout ahead |
| Eastway EOR | Roundabout right |
| St Andrews Ave | Right |
| Colchester Rd | Roundabout left |
| Rectory Rd | Right |
| Ernest Rd | EOR left |
| Stanley Rd | Left |
| Manor Rd | EOR left |
| Stanley Rd | EOR right |
| Rectory Rd | 2 nd right |
| Cowies Rd | EOR left |
| Rectory Hill | EOR right |
| B1027 (At Thorrington Cross) | Left |
| B1029 (After Railway Crossing) | 2 nd left |
| B1029 | Crossroads right |
| A133 | Roundabout left |
| A120 | 1 st exit |
| Ipswich Rd | 2 x roundabout ahead |
| DTC | |
| Driving Test Route Number | 4 |
| DTC | Left |
| Grange Way | EOR Left |
| Whitehall Rd | EOR right |
| Old Heath Rd / Military Rd | EOR Left |
| Magdalen St | Roundabout ahead |
| Southway | Roundabout left |
| Maldon Rd / Shrub End Rd | 5 th right |
| King Harold Rd / Baden Powell Rd | Left |
| King Harold Rd | EOR left |
| Ambrose Ave | EOR right |
| Straight Rd | EOR left |
| London Rd | 2 nd left |
| Trafalgar Rd | EOR Left |
| London Rd | Roundabout ahead |
| Old London Rd To Copford | 2 x roundabout ahead |
| Old London Rd | Roundabout 1 st exit |
| A12 | 1 st Slip Rd |
| B1024 Kelvedon | Left |
| B1023 | 5 th left |
| B1022 Maldon Rd | Roundabout right, roundabout ahead, roundabout right |
| Gosbecks Rd | EOR ahead at double roundabout |
| Berechurch Hall Rd | EOR Left |
| Mersea Rd | Right |
| Abbotts Rd | EOR Left |
| Old Heath Rd | Right |
| Whitehall Rd | Right |
| Grange Way | |
| DTC |