Driving Lessons in Waltham Abbey

EN postcodes are £38 an hour and automatic is charged the same. A ten-hour block is £370 and twenty hours is £726, which works out at £36.30 an hour. Forty hours costs £1436. Every figure is read live from the booking system.

Enfield at Innova Business Park, on Solar Way, 1.8 miles west. It publishes 53.9% on 8,412 tests, the highest of anything nearby. Loughton is 3.1 miles south east at 47.0%, Chingford 3.7 miles south at 39.9%, and Tottenham 6.8 miles south west at 48.9%.

On the published figures, yes, which is unusual in this part of Essex. Innova Park is both the closest centre to EN9 and the one with the strongest rate in the DVSA 2025/26 release, and it is seven points above Loughton and fourteen above Chingford. That removes the trade most of the neighbouring towns have to weigh up. Rated Driving matches instructors and does not arrange the test itself.

Yes, at the same EN rate as manual. It suits learners who would rather spend the hour on position and observation, which is what the Innova Park routes reward, than on gear selection. Ask for automatic when you book and the postcode decides who is offered. Enfield, 1.8 miles west, passed 50.0% of 3,460 automatic tests in the DVSA 2025/26 figures, against 56.7% for manual.

No. Rated Driving is an agent, matching learners with independent instructors. The instructor already covers EN9, has a current DVSA licence and a DBS check confirmed in advance, and receives the fee only once your lesson has been taught. A female instructor can be requested at the booking stage.

The town and Upshire on the Essex side, Enfield Lock, Enfield Island Village, Enfield Wash, Enfield Highway, Bullsmoor, Brimsdown, Bulls Cross and Carterhatch across the Lee, and Lower Nazeing, Nazeing and Bumble's Green to the north. Put the postcode in and your street is checked rather than the county it sits in.

It moves week to week, so take the live position from GOV.UK when you are ready to book rather than from any figure quoted second hand. Two fixed points: a test can be reserved up to 24 weeks ahead, and there is no official queue or priority register on offer from anybody. Innova Park has the best published rate around here, which is why its dates go early, and the free Driving Test Swap tries to pair you with a learner who wants the one you hold.

The DVSA's own research says about 45 hours with an instructor plus 22 hours of private practice. Because the test is only a couple of miles away, less of that goes on travelling than in most of the towns around here, but some of it has to be spent on the Enfield side of the Lee rather than only on Essex roads.

Yes. They are across the river in EN3 but are a short drive from the town and are worked by the same instructors covering EN9. They also sit next to the test centre, which makes them the obvious place to spend the hours before the date.

Yes, say so when you book. The residential roads on the north side of the town and the flat valley streets towards Fishers Green are quiet, level and free of through traffic, and an instructor will generally start there rather than on Highbridge Street or the A121.

Yes, ask for a refresher. The two things people here want the hours put into are the Crooked Mile and the forest climbs at Upshire after dark, and joining the M25 at junction 26 from Honey Lane, which is a short slip onto fast traffic.

Yes. The six modules cover town traffic, all weathers, rural roads, night driving, dual carriageways and motorways, and several insurers take it into account. Waltham Abbey is well placed: the M25 is at the edge of the parish, the A10 provides dual carriageway work, and the lanes around Nazeing and Bumble's Green do the rural section.

They can. A learner may drive on a motorway in a dual-controlled car with a fully qualified instructor, and it does not have to wait until after the test. Junction 26 of the M25 is reached from the town along Honey Lane, so motorway practice can be folded into a normal lesson.

Rated Driving is not a driving school. We match you with independent, DVSA-licensed driving instructors in Waltham Abbey. 2 instructor pages say they mostly cover Waltham Abbey. EN9 sits on the county boundary, so instructors covering Waltham Abbey work the town and Upshire on the Essex side and cross the Lee into Enfield Lock, Enfield Island Village, Bullsmoor and Brimsdown, then north into the Nazeing villages. Both gearboxes are taught, and which instructors can reach you depends on the postcode rather than the county line. The test centre on this page is Enfield (Innova Business Park) test centre (Enfield (Innova Business Park) · 1.8 mi west · 8,412 tests a year). A pedestrianised centre, a motorway junction named after the town, and a lane that is crooked on purpose. Every instructor is DBS-checked before they take a learner, and we hold your payment until after the lesson. Instructors who state they cover Waltham Abbey include Bernard Frappaolo, David Tingey.

You can ask for a female driving instructor in Waltham Abbey when you book. The other answer on this page names instructors who state they cover Waltham Abbey. 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 Waltham Abbey West, Waltham Abbey North, Enfield Island Village, Enfield Lock and Bullsmoor. The two main roads through the town are the A121 and the A112, and the A112 begins just south of the centre where it meets the A121. North of the town the B194 runs out towards Fishers Green along the stretch everyone calls the Crooked Mile, which is a genuinely useful piece of road to learn on because the bends arrive faster than the sightlines suggest. Sun Street itself is pedestrianised, so the town centre traffic runs around it rather than through it. Lessons for that match use Enfield (Innova Business Park) test centre (Enfield (Innova Business Park) · 1.8 mi west · 8,412 tests a year). If nobody suitable has space, we tell you rather than quietly matching you with someone else.