Driving Lessons in Dartford
From £37/hr on block booking • Dartford • DA1
Driving lessons in Dartford DA1, manual and automatic, covering the town centre, Princes Road and Dartford Heath.
Nearest test centre: Sidcup. Free pick up and drop off on every lesson. Manual and automatic available.
Local Expertise
Town centre practice around the one way system
Fully DVSA Qualified
Faster road practice on Princes Road
Fits Around Your Week
Open roads and bends around Dartford Heath
Lessons we teach in Dartford
Manual Driving Lessons
A manual pass covers you for any car.
Automatic Driving Lessons
No clutch to learn.
Intensive Driving Course
From 5 to 40 hours, over one or two weeks.
Refresher Lessons
For full licence holders getting back behind the wheel.
Female Instructors
Ask for one when you book.
Pass Plus Course
Motorways, night driving and bad weather.
Learners who passed with DriveThruL
Some of the learners who passed with us.
A driving school since 2008
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Book Your First LessonLearning to drive in Dartford
Dartford gives a learner three quite different kinds of road. The town centre has a one way system and busy crossings near the Orchards shopping centre. Princes Road is a dual carriageway where you learn to keep up with faster traffic. Out around Dartford Heath the roads open up, with higher speed limits and bends to read. Lessons build through those in order, starting on residential streets before the town centre and faster roads come in. Learners here can book their test at Sidcup, so later lessons include the roads around that centre too.
What Makes Dartford Special for Learners
Driving Lessons in Dartford from £37/hr
6 hours: £228 • 10 hours: £375 (most popular) • 20 hours: £740 (save £60)
Prices shown are for manual lessons. Automatic lessons in this area are £43 an hour pay as you go, 10 hours for £400 or 20 hours for £760.
Your nearest test centre
Everything Dartford learners need to know about passing their test at Sidcup.
Sidcup Test Centre
Lessons near test day cover the roads around the centre. See our Sidcup test centre guide for pass rates and routes at every nearby centre.
- Complete test route knowledge
- Pre test warm up lesson available
- DVSA registered instructors, DBS checked
- Test car hire available (guide from £150)
- Mock test under real conditions
Route Tips from Dartford
- The centre is on Maidstone Road (the A211). The A211 carries on north as Foots Cray High Street and Sidcup Hill towards Sidcup, so your drive starts on a main road with side roads and junctions from the first minute.
- Cray Road (the A224) meets Sidcup Hill at traffic lights, and North Cray Road (the A223) meets Maidstone Road at a roundabout. Both are close to the centre, so read the signs early and get into the right lane.
- The A20 Sidcup By-pass is a dual carriageway just south west of the centre. At Crittall's Corner it links to Maidstone Road and Edgington Way through slip roads and roundabouts. Pick your lane from the signs on the approach and hold it.
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What is the pass rate at Sidcup test centre?
Sidcup Test Centre has a 58.7% pass rate (the national average is 50.0%). We focus every lesson on the faults examiners most often mark on this route. Every Dartford learner practises these exact faults, sits a mock under real test conditions, and can hire our dual control car for the test itself.
Roads to practise before your test
The spots learners in Dartford tend to find hardest.
- The town centre one way system
- Keeping up with traffic on Princes Road
- Higher speed limits and bends around Dartford Heath
- Junction priorities on the A206 and A226
- Building test day confidence on the Sidcup routes, practised from a Dartford start point
Areas we cover in Dartford
Pick up and drop off anywhere in DA1
Local Areas & Landmarks in Dartford
Common questions about driving lessons in Dartford
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Lessons in Dartford
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