Driving Lessons in Epping

CM postcodes are £38 an hour, and an automatic is charged the same. Ten hours is £370, twenty hours is £726, which is £36.30 an hour, and thirty hours is £1083. Those come straight from the booking system rather than from a price list printed months ago.

Loughton, at Crown Buildings on the High Road, 4.1 miles south west. It publishes 47.0% on 7,376 tests. Enfield at Innova Business Park is 5.8 miles west at 53.9%, Chingford 6.2 miles south west at 39.9%, and Wanstead 8.9 miles south west at 44.4%.

Loughton is closer by under two miles and Enfield publishes almost seven points higher, so this is a genuine trade rather than an obvious answer. What decides it is which roads you have driven: Enfield's routes run through industrial estate roads and the Lee Valley, which are nothing like the forest edge. Rated Driving matches instructors and does not arrange test bookings.

Yes, at the same rate as manual. It is worth considering here because the ridge the town sits on means hill work comes early, and that is where manual learners spend extra hours. Loughton, 4.1 miles south west, passed 45.3% of 3,249 automatic tests in the DVSA 2025/26 figures, against 48.3% for manual. One instructor page offers automatic lessons and says it mostly covers Epping. That instructor is David Barry. Say automatic when you book and the postcode you enter determines which instructors come back to you.

No. Rated Driving is an agent that matches learners to independent instructors. The instructor already covers CM16, both the DVSA licence and the DBS check are confirmed beforehand, a female instructor can be requested, and the payment is held until the lesson has been taught.

The town, Coopersale and Thornwood Common, Epping Upland to the west, Mount End and Colliers Hatch, North Weald and Hastingwood to the north east, Jack's Hatch, Stapleford Tawney, Toot Hill, Greensted Green and Broadley Common. Type a postcode in and the street is checked rather than the name of the parish.

It shifts constantly, so read the live figure on GOV.UK when you are ready to book. Two things hold steady: a test can be reserved as far as 24 weeks ahead, and there is no official queue or priority register, whatever you may be offered elsewhere. Loughton has the better published figure of the two nearest centres, which is why its dates go early. The free Driving Test Swap will look for a learner who wants the date you are holding.

The DVSA's research gives roughly 45 hours with an instructor plus 22 hours of private practice. Epping learners often add a few hours at the end rather than the beginning, because getting comfortable on Loughton's streets before the test is a separate job from learning to drive around CM16.

Yes. North Weald sits about two miles north east beside the airfield and Thornwood Common is just up the B1393, and both are covered by the same instructors working the town. They also give you the rural and national speed limit practice that the syllabus needs and the High Street cannot provide.

Yes, say so at the booking stage. The estate roads around Coopersale and the flatter streets on the Ivy Chimneys side are quiet and slow, and an instructor will normally spend the first hours there before going anywhere near the High Street or the forest roundabouts.

Yes, ask for a refresher. The two most common requests in CM16 are the Wake Arms roundabout, which has five arms and no forgiving lane, and joining the M11 at junction seven after a long time off the motorway.

Yes. Pass Plus is six modules taken after your test, covering town, all weathers, rural roads, night, dual carriageways and motorways, and some insurers recognise it. Epping suits it unusually well, because the M11 is two miles away and the lanes at Toot Hill and Stapleford Tawney supply proper rural driving inside ten minutes.

They can. A learner may drive on the motorway in a dual-controlled car with a fully qualified instructor, and it does not have to wait until after the pass. Junction 7 of the M11 is a short run out past North Weald, so it can be built into a longer lesson rather than needing a dedicated trip.

Rated Driving is not a driving school. We match you with independent, DVSA-licensed driving instructors in Epping. One instructor page says it mostly covers Epping. CM16 is a small town with a large rural hinterland, so instructors covering Epping work the town itself and then out to Coopersale and Thornwood Common, west to Epping Upland, north east to North Weald and Hastingwood, and into the lanes at Toot Hill and Greensted Green. Both gearboxes are taught and the postcode you enter settles who can reach you. The test centre on this page is Loughton test centre (Loughton · 4.1 mi south west · 7,376 tests a year). A ridge, a forest, a motorway junction and an airfield, all inside about three miles. Every instructor is DBS-checked before they take a learner, and we hold your payment until after the lesson. Instructors who state they cover Epping include David Barry.

You can ask for a female driving instructor in Epping when you book. The other answer on this page names instructors who state they cover Epping. None of those profiles lists female driving instructor, so no name is added here. The price on this page is £38 an hour, and automatic lessons are the same price. The same booking covers Epping East, Ivy Chimneys, Coopersale Street, Steward's Green and Fiddlers Hamlet. The High Street is the B1393 and it carries the town's whole length, which is why parking, side turnings and pedestrians all have to be read at once. South of the town the B1393 meets the Wake Arms roundabout, where it joins the A104 Epping New Road, both arms of the A121 at Woodridden Hill and Goldings Hill, and the B172 at Jack's Hill. The pub it is named after was pulled down in the 1980s and the roundabout kept the name. Lessons for that match use Loughton test centre (Loughton · 4.1 mi south west · 7,376 tests a year). If nobody suitable has space, we tell you rather than quietly matching you with someone else.