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Location: Warwick / Leamington
Spa,Warwickshire
Email: hello@drivewithissy.co.uk
Phone: +44 7812390153
Hampton Magna · Warwick
Driving lessons in Hampton Magna are automatic and one-to-one, with pick-up from the village included, from £75 for 1.5 hours. Hampton Magna is three miles west of Warwick in the parish of Budbrooke, and its quiet estate layout makes it one of the easier places locally to get the first few hours done.
Part of driving lessons in Warwick. Taught by Issy, a fully qualified DSA-approved instructor.
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Automatic, one-to-one tuition with pick-up from your Hampton Magna address included. The village handles basic control, and the roads towards Warwick handle everything a test will ask for.
Hampton Magna is three miles west of Warwick and is the largest of the three settlements in Budbrooke parish, alongside Hampton-on-the-Hill and the small village of Budbrooke itself. It was built out as a housing estate from the late 1960s on the site of the former Royal Warwickshire Regiment barracks, which is why the street names commemorate the regiment — The Warwicks, Montgomery Avenue, Arras Boulevard, and Caen and Normandy Close.
That planned late-1960s layout is genuinely useful for a beginner. The roads are wider and more regular than an older village, sightlines are longer, and traffic is light. A first lesson here can cover the cockpit drill, moving off and stopping without the learner having to think about oncoming vehicles at all.
The risk, as with any quiet estate, is stopping there. A learner who only drives Hampton Magna will be unready for the A425 through Saltisford and Northgate, which is exactly what a Warwick test will ask for. So lessons move out towards Warwick early, and the village becomes the place manoeuvres get polished rather than the place all the driving happens.
Included in driving lessons in Warwick. Tuition is by Issy, a fully qualified DSA-approved instructor teaching automatic only since 2021.
£75 buys 90 minutes, £90 buys two hours, and blocks of six or ten hours cost £270 and £450. There is no charge for coming to you.
| Lesson or course | Price |
|---|---|
| 1.5 hour lesson | £75 |
| 2 hour lesson | £90 |
| 6 hour block | £270 |
| 10 hour block | £450 |
| 30 hour intensive, includes practical test at Warwick Wedgnock House | £1,800 |
| Pass Plus, 6 hours | £300 |
| Test day fee | £150 |
Current published pricing. Blocks bring the per-hour cost down and the 30 hour course includes the practical test. See the full lesson prices.
Five roads and areas do most of the teaching in and around Hampton Magna. Road classifications are as mapped on OpenStreetMap.
The estate spine roads. Wide, regular and light on traffic, with a school and a community centre generating predictable pedestrian activity. This is where the first two or three hours happen.
The quieter residential streets. Parked cars, junctions close together, and enough real gaps to practise parallel parking and pulling up on the right properly.
Low-speed with parking and pedestrian movement around the Community Centre and Budbrooke Primary School. Observation practice against genuine activity rather than an empty road.
Narrower, hedged, with blind bends and limited passing room. St Michael’s church sits in Budbrooke village itself. This is the rural element a Warwick test can include, and it is on the doorstep.
The main-road work. Birmingham Road and Saltisford on the A425, and the A46 Warwick Bypass at Stanks Island for higher-speed practice and lane discipline.
Pick-up is from anywhere in Hampton Magna, and Hampton-on-the-Hill, and it is included in the lesson price. That covers the estate roads, the streets near the primary school and community centre, and the housing on the Budbrooke side.
Postcode not obviously inside the area? Send it anyway and you will get a clear answer.
The nearest car test centre is Warwick (Wedgenock House), Wedgnock Lane, CV34 5AP, which GOV.UK lists for car, motorcycle module 2 and ADI part 3 tests.
Hampton Magna sits on the same side of Warwick as the test centre, so the run to Wedgnock Lane is short and takes in Birmingham Road and the A425 on the way. That is convenient, but it also means Hampton Magna learners can reach test standard on main roads while still being light on tight, historic town-centre driving. Lessons weight Northgate, The Butts and North Rock accordingly.
The Warwick driving test routes page works through each road and the fault it tends to produce. On hours, DVSA guidance is around 45 of tuition plus 20 of private practice.
Adjacent coverage, in case your postcode sits closer to one of these.
The full Warwick area, including all six course types and the test centre roads.
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Yes, with pick-up from any Hampton Magna or Hampton-on-the-Hill address included in the lesson price.
For the first few hours, yes. The late-1960s estate layout gives you wide, regular roads with light traffic, which removes a lot of first-lesson stress. It is not somewhere to stop, though.
Warwick (Wedgenock House), Wedgnock Lane, CV34 5AP, on the same side of Warwick. GOV.UK lists it as running car, motorcycle module 2 and ADI part 3 tests.
Electric automatic only. No manual tuition is available, and the licence follows the car you test in.
Roughly 45 hours with an instructor and 20 hours of practice, according to DVSA. No guaranteed pass is offered.
Yes, both are within the Hampton Magna coverage area.
Send your postcode and when you can drive. You will get a realistic answer, including if there is a wait. If a quiet start in the village and real roads when you are ready is what you need, that first conversation costs nothing.
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Drive With Issy
1 St Catherine’s Crescent
Leamington Spa CV31 2LA
07812 390153
hello@drivewithissy.co.uk
Lessons run across Hampton Magna, Hampton-on-the-Hill, Budbrooke, Warwick and the surrounding Warwickshire area, automatic only in an electric vehicle. Test outcomes are never guaranteed.
