Driving Lessons in Haringey
N POSTCODES COVERED
- DVSA-licensed
- DBS-checked
- Paid after your lesson
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Wood Green test centre
pass rate
Haringey has two test centres inside it. Wood Green is the larger and the more widely used. These are its official DVSA figures.
DVSA 2025/26 · 11,379 tests · Wood Green Crown Court, Lordship Lane, N22 5LF · in borough, one of two
Source: DVSA driving test statistics, 2025/26 reporting period. Figures refresh when DVSA publishes; every value on this page is pinned to that release.
Take a test date
you would actually pick.
Two centres two miles apart means learners here often hold a date at one when the other would have suited them better. Another learner may be glad to take yours and hand you theirs.
Nothing about your booking changes unless you both say yes. DVSA makes the swap on the call, not us.
The date you were given
Tue 17 Feb
Wood Green · 11:41
A date you would rather have
Sat 6 Dec
Wood Green · 09:07
earlier
- 1Add your testYour centre, date and time, and the dates that would suit you better. About two minutes.
- 2We find the matchChecked against the rules DVSA publishes, so you only see swaps that can actually happen.
- 3One of you calls DVSAOnly then is a booking reference released, to whoever makes the call. Either of you can still say no.
What has to be true for a swap
- You both need a car practical already booked
- At least 10 full working days before the earlier test Monday to Saturday count as working days. Sundays and public holidays do not.
- You both need one of your two DVSA changes left Nobody outside DVSA can check how many you have left, so we ask.
- Same test type and fee band A weekday test can only swap with another weekday test.
Free, no payment details, and neither learner ever sees the other's name. It is new, so the more learners who list a date, the faster it finds you one.
What lessons
actually cost
Real rates for N postcodes. Manual and automatic cost exactly the same in London, which is not true everywhere.
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Choose how
you learn
However you want to learn, it is one booking, matched to independent DVSA-licensed instructors covering Haringey.
Manual lessons
The climb from Tottenham up to Muswell Hill and Highgate is one of the steepest sustained gradients in London, which makes hill starts a real skill here rather than a demonstration. A manual licence lets you drive both types of car.
Book manual lessonsAutomatic lessons
Automatic costs the same as manual here. On Haringey's gradients that removes the thing most learners stall on, and on the High Road it turns waiting time into observation time.
Book automatic lessonsChoose your instructor
Say what suits you: a female instructor, extra patience, or an instructor who teaches both local centres rather than only the nearest. Every instructor is DVSA-licensed and DBS-checked before they take learners.
Tell us your preferenceIntensive course
Two centres in the borough means there is usually a date to be had, and an intensive course is how you are ready for it. Test-date swaps between learners are free, and you never share your name.
See intensive coursesAreas we cover
around Haringey
Instructors covering Haringey work across N4, N8 and N22 and the surrounding codes. All 11 of the borough's postcode districts are shared with Islington, Camden, Barnet, Enfield or Hackney, so the postcode you enter decides who covers you.
Instructors here also cover Islington to the south and Enfield to the north, both of which send learners to Haringey to sit their test.
pass rates DVSA 2025/26
Learning to drive
in Haringey
Two test centres inside the borough, two miles apart, and no travel either way.

The High Road, and then the hill
Tottenham High Road is a long congested bus corridor with parked obstruction on both sides. Two miles west the ground rises hard towards Muswell Hill and Highgate. Instructors here teach the hill first, because the car is a more patient teacher than the High Road traffic.
Match days at White Hart Lane
A fixture at the stadium closes roads and fills every approach for hours either side, and it affects the Tottenham centre's surroundings directly. Instructors who teach the borough check the fixture list, and it is worth naming your available days when you book.
Two centres, no travel penalty
Wood Green and Tottenham are both inside the borough and about two miles apart, and Tottenham publishes 48.9% against Wood Green's 46.8%. Almost no London learner gets a choice like that without a journey attached. Ask your instructor which routes suit you.
Alexandra Palace is a hill start test
The approach roads to Ally Pally are steep, and they curve, and there are usually cars parked along them. Instructors use them deliberately, because a hill start on a bend with a car close behind is the version you will actually meet after you pass.
What learners said

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Haringey lesson questions
Straight answers on prices, test centres and booking in Haringey.
Lessons are £40 an hour across N4, N8 and N22, and automatic costs exactly the same as manual. Ten hours is £389 and twenty 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.
Haringey has two inside it: Wood Green, whose current DVSA figures are at the top of this page, and Tottenham about two miles east. Barnet, outside the borough to the north west, is a third option and publishes the highest rate of the three.
Tottenham publishes 48.9% against Wood Green's 46.8%, so on the figures Tottenham has the edge, and neither involves a journey out of the borough. Pass rates reflect the mix of candidates as well as the roads, so treat it as a reason to ask your instructor which routes suit your driving rather than as a guarantee.
Yes, at the same price as manual. It is worth considering here because of the gradient up towards Muswell Hill and Highgate, which is where manual learners lose the most hours. Say automatic when you book.
No. Rated Driving is an agent rather than a school, which is why the instructor who turns up is a local independent working N postcodes and not an employee sent from a depot. We hold your payment until after each lesson, then pass it on. Every instructor is DVSA-licensed and DBS-checked, and you can ask for a female instructor.
Wood Green, Tottenham, Crouch End, Hornsey, Muswell Hill, Highgate, Harringay, Seven Sisters, Bruce Grove and Bowes Park among others. All 11 of the borough's postcode districts are shared with a neighbouring borough, so enter your postcode and we check who covers your exact street.
Yes. Say nervous when you book and we match you with a patient instructor. The residential streets around Bowes Park and Stroud Green are quiet enough for a first few hours before you meet the High Road or the hills.
Yes. Say refresher when you book. Hill starts and the Tottenham High Road bus corridor are the two things people most often want the hours spent on here.
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 the borough run it, with the faster modules usually done north towards the M25.
They can, before your test if you want. Learners are allowed on motorways in a dual-control car with a fully qualified instructor. The M25 is north of the borough, so it usually sits in a longer lesson booked for the purpose.
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. The hills tend to add a few early on, and many learners here do not have a car to practise in between lessons. Your instructor will give you an honest count after assessing you.
It moves weekly, so check GOV.UK on the day you book. Two things stay true: tests can be booked up to 24 weeks ahead, and there is no official waiting list or cancellation list. Having two centres in the borough is the real advantage, because when one is full the other often is not. If you already hold a date and want an earlier one, our free Driving Test Swap matches you with another learner who wants yours.
Driving lessons in nearby towns
The same postcode matching, prices and payment protection run in every town we cover. If your lessons start outside Haringey, pick your town.
Start driving lessons in Haringey
Put your postcode in and we will match you with an instructor who teaches Haringey every week and knows both local test centres. We hold your payment until after each lesson, then pass it on to your instructor.
- DVSA-licensed
- DBS-checked
- Paid after your lesson
“If you are not happy with your first lesson, tell us within 24 hours. We will refund up to 1 hour (60 minutes) of that first lesson and help you find another Instructor.” Read the full promise
Haringey · N4 / N8 / N22
Your pickup postcode
We match instructors by postcode. Tell us where lessons start and we pair you with a DVSA-licensed instructor who covers your part of the N4, N8 and N22 postcodes.

