Recently the Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA) stopped publishing the driving test routes for each test centre to prevent test candidates from practicing the routes that the examiners take you on.
The driving test routes for Orkney Driving Test Centre may have altered in the mean-time, although it is likely they are very similar if not identical. Listed below are the driving test centre routes for Orkney, routes 6-10.
The Orkney driving test routes should be used for a guide only as test routes are for the discretion of the test examiner and may be subject to change.
Driving test routes incorporate the most challenging areas to drive in that particular location. Study the roads and the routes to establish which areas you will need practice on.
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Glossary:
- EOR – End of Road
- T/L – Traffic Lights
- DTC – Driving Test Centre
| Name of Test Centre | Orkney (Kirkwall) |
|---|---|
| Route Number | 6 |
| Name/ number of Road | Direction |
| DTC | Left |
| Pickaquoy Rd | Roundabout right |
| Junction Rd / New Scapa Rd | 5 th left |
| Scapa Crescent | EOR left |
| Holm Rd | Right |
| A961 | Left |
| Tradespark | EOR left |
| Kirkwall | 3 rd right |
| George St | EOR right |
| Dundas Crescent, Palace Rd | Right |
| Broad St | Left |
| Castle St | Ahead |
| West Castle St | EOR right |
| Great Western Rd | Roundabout left |
| Ayre Rd | Right |
| Grain Shore | Left, right, EOR right |
| Finstown | Right |
| New Road Grain Shore | Right |
| Crowness Crescent | EOR left |
| Ayre Rd | Roundabout ahead |
| Harbour St, Shore St | Roundabout right |
| St Catherine’s Place | EOR right |
| Queens St, School Place | EOR left |
| Dundas Crescent | 2 nd right |
| Clay Loan / Union Street | EOR right |
| Junction Rd | Roundabout left |
| Pickaquoy Rd | 2 nd right |
| DTC | |
| Route Number | 7 |
| Name/ number of Road | Direction |
| DTC | Left |
| Pickaquoy Rd | Roundabout left |
| Junction Rd | Roundabout right |
| Harbour St / Shore St | Roundabout right |
| St. Catherine’s Place | EOR left |
| East Rd | Left |
| East Hill to Weyland | Left |
| Carness Rd / Cromwell Rd | Roundabout ahead |
| Shore St / Harbour St | Roundabout left |
| Junction Rd | 2 nd left |
| Castle St | EOR right |
| Broad St / Palace Rd / Dundas Crescent | 2 nd right |
| Clay Loan | 2 nd left |
| Earl Thorfinn St | 2 nd left |
| Craigie Crescent | 2 nd left |
| Quoy Banks Crescent | 2 nd right |
| Kirklands Rd | EOR left |
| Pipersquoy Rd | EOR right |
| New Scapa Rd | Left |
| Wellington St | Right |
| Glaitness Rd | Left |
| Bloomfield Rd | Left |
| Kirkwall / Old Scapa Rd / Wellington St | EOR left |
| Junction Rd | Roundabout ahead, 2 nd left |
| West Castle St | EOR left |
| Great Western Rd | EOR right |
| Pickaquoy Rd | Right |
| DTC | |
| Route Number | 8 |
| Name/ number of Road | Direction |
| DTC | Left |
| Pickaquoy Rd | Roundabout right |
| Junction Rd | Left |
| Union St / Clay Loan | EOR right |
| Bignold Park Rd | 3 rd right |
| Ettsdale Loan | EOR left |
| Holm Rd | EOR right |
| Holm Branch Rd / New Scapa Rd | 3 rd right |
| Pipersquoy Rd | Left |
| Summerdale Rd | EOR right |
| Craigie Crescent | EOR left |
| Holm Rd | EOR |
| Bignold Park Rd | Right |
| George St | EOR right |
| Dundas Crescent / Palace Rd / Broad St | Left |
| Castle St / West Castle St | EOR right |
| Great Western Rd | Roundabout right |
| Ayre Rd / Harbour St | Roundabout ahead |
| Shore St | Roundabout right |
| St. Catherine’s Place | EOR right |
| Queen St / School Place | EOR left |
| Dundas Crescent | Left |
| Thomas St / Meadow | EOR left |
| Meadowbank | 3 rd right |
| Berstane Rd | EOR left, right, EOR left |
| Airport Rd | Right |
| Tradespark | EOR right |
| Kirkwall / Holm Branch Rd | Left to |
| Scapa Beach | |
| DTC | |
| Route Number | 9 |
| Name/ number of Road | Direction |
| DTC | Left |
| Pickaquoy Rd | Roundabout right |
| Junction Rd | Left |
| Union St / Clay Loan | EOR right |
| Bignold Park Rd / A960 | Left |
| Tankerness | Right |
| Jeweller | EOR right |
| Kirkwall | Left |
| Tradespark | EOR right |
| Kirkwall | Roundabout right |
| Holm Rd | EOR right |
| Holm Branch Rd / New Scapa Rd | 3 rd right |
| Pipersquoy Rd | Right, EOR right |
| Junction Rd | Roundabout left |
| Pickaquoy Rd | Right |
| Great Western Rd | 4 th right |
| Burnmouth Rd | EOR right |
| Junction Rd | Left |
| Castle St | EOR right |
| Broad St / Palace Rd / Dundas Crescent | 2 nd right |
| Clay Loan | EOR right |
| Junction Rd | Roundabout ahead, left |
| Tankerness West | EOR left |
| Great Western Rd | EOR right |
| Pickaquoy Rd | Right |
| DTC | |
| Route Number | 10 |
| Name/ number of Road | Direction |
| DTC Car | Left |
| Pickaquoy Rd | Roundabout right |
| Junction Rd / New Scapa Rd / Holm Branch Rd | 2 nd left |
| Holm Rd | 2 nd right |
| Easdale Rd | EOR right |
| Deerness Rd | Left |
| Single track road | EOR left |
| Inganess Rd | Left, left, EOR right |
| Deerness Rd | Right |
| Papdale | 3 rd left |
| Meadowbank / Thoams St | 2 nd right |
| Slater St | Bear left |
| Willow Rd | Bear right |
| Willowburn Rd | EOR left |
| Continue | |
| Berstane Rd / East Rd / Queen St / School Pl | EOR right |
| Palace Rd / Broad St | Left |
| Broad St | Left |
| Castle St | Right |
| Junction Rd | Roundabout left |
| Ayre Rd | Roundabout ahead, left |
| Sunny Bank | EOR left |
| Glaitness Rd | EOR right |
| Old Scapa Rd | Left |
| Scapa Beach | EOR left |
| Kirkwall | EOR left |
| New Scapa Rd / Junction Rd | Roundabout ahead, 2 nd left |
| West Castle St | EOR left |
| Great Western Rd | EOR right |
| Pickaquoy Rd | Right |
| DTC |
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