Driving Lessons in Camden

Lessons are £40 an hour across NW postcodes, and automatic costs exactly the same as manual, which is not true in every part of the country. A ten-hour block is £389 and twenty hours is £764, which brings it to £38.20 an hour. The figures come from the booking system, so the price here is the price you book.

Wood Green, about 4.8 miles north in Haringey. Camden has no test centre of its own. Wood Green's current DVSA figures are at the top of this page: 46.8% overall. Hendon and Mill Hill are the realistic alternatives if its diary is full.

Yes, and at the same price as manual. In Camden the case for automatic is stronger than most places: between Euston, King's Cross and Camden Lock you spend a lot of the lesson at walking pace, and without a clutch that time goes on observation instead. Say automatic when you book.

No. Rated Driving is an agent, not a school. We match you with independent DVSA-licensed instructors covering NW1, NW3 and NW5, and we hold your payment until after each lesson before passing it on. Ask for what you need when you book, a female instructor included, and every instructor is DBS-checked first.

Camden Town, Hampstead, Highgate, Kentish Town, Bloomsbury, King's Cross, Belsize Park, Primrose Hill, West Hampstead and the rest of the borough. Camden shares 24 of its 26 postcode districts with Islington, Westminster or Brent, so enter your postcode and we check who actually covers your street rather than guessing from the borough.

Yes, and it is a common ask here because Camden traffic is genuinely intimidating. Say nervous when you book and the first hours can run on the quieter residential streets around Belsize Park and Gospel Oak, well away from Camden Road, until you decide otherwise.

Yes. Say refresher when you book. A lot of Camden drivers hold a licence but have not driven in London, or have not driven at all since moving here, and the lessons go on exactly that: bus lanes, cycle lanes, box junctions and the confidence to use them.

Yes. Pass Plus is the DVSA's six-module course for new licence holders, covering motorway, dual carriageway, rural and night driving, and some insurers reduce premiums for it. Instructors covering Camden run it, and the motorway module usually runs north on the M1 from the A41.

They can, before your test if you want. Learners are allowed on motorways in a dual-control car with a fully qualified instructor. From Camden that means heading north up the A41 to the M1, so it is usually built into a longer lesson rather than a standard hour.

DVSA research puts it at 45 hours of professional lessons plus 22 hours of private practice, and learners who get that private practice are markedly more likely to pass first time. Camden learners often need a few more hours than a suburban learner and come out better drivers for it, because there is no easy version of this borough to practise on. Your instructor will give you an honest number after the first lesson or two.

It moves weekly, so check GOV.UK on the day you book. Two things do not change: tests can be booked up to 24 weeks ahead, and there is no official waiting list or cancellation list, whatever other sites advertise. Wood Green serves a large slice of north London so its dates go quickly, and Hendon and Mill Hill are worth checking too. If you already hold a date and want an earlier one, our free Driving Test Swap matches you with another learner who wants yours.