Oxford learner guide Articles

Oxford's traffic filters went live on Monday 28 September 2026. If you are learning to drive in Oxford, practising in a family car, or about to take your test at Cowley, they change how some journeys work. This guide explains where the filters are, when they operate,...

This circuit leaves Cowley on Hollow Way, runs north up the Eastern Bypass to the Headington roundabout, then drops into Headington on the A40 West for a bay park at the Marsh Lane car park. It comes back through Headley Way, London Road and The Slade.Routes are...

This circuit opens with a tight residential loop off Hollow Way, then puts you on the Cowley Junction roundabout twice, both times needing the fourth exit and the right lane. In between there are three mini roundabouts in quick succession and a narrow road with cars...

This is the circuit that asks you to do everything. Quiet residential streets at 20 mph, a stretch of the A40 ring road at 50, a bus lane exit that has to be judged in a short distance, genuinely narrow lanes in Quarry Hollow, and a stop sign where rolling through is...