Kendal (Oxenholme Road) Driving Test Centre
The Kendal (Oxenholme Road) driving test centre is located in Heron Hill, England (LA9 7RL). Below are the official pass-rate statistics, multi-year trend, demographic breakdown, and how this centre compares against the UK average and its neighbours, all drawn from the DVSA quarterly statistical release.
Pass vs fail at a glance
402 passed, 79 failed, 481 total
How Kendal (Oxenholme Road) compares
Kendal (Oxenholme Road) performs well above the UK average. Learners passing here are more likely to pass than at most other UK centres, though this can also reflect quieter test routes and fewer challenging junctions.
Where Kendal (Oxenholme Road) ranks among 194 centres
Pass-rate trend by year
Most common faults at this centre
The fault categories most frequently recorded against learners on test. Knowing them lets you target practice on the things examiners are most likely to penalise.
- 1Junctions - observation10
- 2Mirrors - change direction9
- 3Move off - safely8
- 4Junctions - turning right7
- 5Response to signs - traffic lights6
Per-centre fault breakdowns are derived from the DVSA national fault distribution applied to centre-level test outcomes.
Pass rate by demographic
Estimated wait time and demand
Wait times at Kendal (Oxenholme Road) have remained broadly stable through recent reporting periods. Booking is achievable but not immediate: learners booking at Kendal (Oxenholme Road) typically wait around 12 weeks from booking to test day.
Wait time is estimated from regional demand patterns reported in the National Audit Office investigation into car driving test waiting times (Dec 2024) and the DVSA Despatch blog updates, combined with this centre's test volume. Real availability fluctuates with examiner staffing and cancellations, always check the official DVSA booking service for live slots.
Centre details
Address
Source: DVSA find a driving test centre (Open Government Licence v3.0), captured 2026-05-12.
Tests offered at Kendal (Oxenholme Road)
- car
- ADI part 2
- ADI part 3
Accessibility & facilities
Parking and toilet details aren't included in DVSA's published feed. For the current on-site facilities, check the DVSA find a driving test centre tool with postcode LA9 7RL, or call DVSA Customer Services on 0300 200 1122.
About this test centre
If you've got a test booked at LA9 7RL, that's Kendal (Oxenholme Road) in Heron Hill, Westmorland and Furness. Examiners use a small set of fixed routes built around the roads immediately surrounding the centre. Only 481 tests sit on the record at Kendal (Oxenholme Road) for 2015-16-2023-24. That puts the centre in the tail of the volume distribution; treat any single-period rate as indicative, not definitive.
Rank: #7 of 194. Pass rate: 83.6%. UK average: 48.7%. That's a top decile centre by the DVSA's own published figures. First-attempt data for Kendal (Oxenholme Road) is missing from the DVSA's DRT122C release. It's not a low number, it's no number, the centre is small enough that DVSA omits it from that particular table.
All figures shown are aggregated from the DVSA quarterly statistical release covering the most recent reporting periods available. Pass-rate calculations exclude tests cancelled by the candidate or examiner. Sample sizes and methodology are described in the source attribution at the foot of this page.
What learners should know about Kendal (Oxenholme Road)
- Above-average pass rate at Kendal (Oxenholme Road) doesn't mean above-average ease. The fundamentals examiners mark are the same nationally: junctions, mirrors, observation, signal timing. A 65%+ pass rate means more candidates clear those, not that the bar is lower.
- With 481 tests on record at Kendal (Oxenholme Road), the per-quarter pass rates are noisy. The trend chart on this page is more informative than any specific number from a specific period.
- Practising the test routes is the single thing that most reliably moves a candidate's pass odds. Most ADI instructors in Heron Hill will have a working knowledge of which routes Kendal (Oxenholme Road) uses.
- Don't pay third-party sites for booking access at Kendal (Oxenholme Road). Use gov.uk/book-driving-test directly; cancellations show up on the same booking flow.
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On the day at Kendal (Oxenholme Road)
Ten minutes early is the right target at Kendal (Oxenholme Road). Parking differs between DVSA centres, so it pays to scout the route on the DVSA centre finder (postcode LA9 7RL) the day before. Demand sits at moderate with a modelled wait of about 12 weeks, which generally leaves more room to choose a date. Bring the provisional photocard licence, the examiner checks for it first, and make sure your car is roadworthy with L plates and a working interior mirror.
The practical lasts about 40 minutes and uses the standard DVSA format nationwide. After an eyesight check at 20 metres and one show-me and one tell-me question, the examiner sits in for the drive. Roughly 20 minutes of that is independent driving, either following a sat nav set by the examiner or following road signs, and you will complete one of four set manoeuvres; about one in three tests includes an emergency stop. The drive covers the local mix of road types within roughly a twenty-minute radius of the centre. Across recent DVSA marking, the fault logged most often at this centre is junctions - observation, worth drilling on the local routes before your date.
You will know the result before you leave Kendal (Oxenholme Road). The examiner explains the faults marked on your DL25 feedback form and, if you have passed, takes the provisional licence so a full one can be posted out. The pass standard is fixed nationally, 15 driving faults maximum and zero serious or dangerous faults, and 83.6% of candidates here meet it under current DVSA marking.
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Data: DVSA quarterly statistical release, released under the Open Government Licence v3.0. PassRates.uk aggregates DVSA centre-level totals across reporting periods.
Edited by Vikas. DVSA data period: 2023-24.