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Location: Warwick / Leamington
Spa,Warwickshire
Email: hello@drivewithissy.co.uk
Phone: +44 7812390153
Radford Semele · Warwickshire
Driving lessons in Radford Semele are automatic and one-to-one, with pick-up from the village included, from £75 for 1.5 hours. The village sits about two miles east of Leamington Spa on the A425 towards Southam, which puts a busy main road and quiet country lanes within the same short radius.
Part of driving lessons in Leamington Spa. Taught by Issy, a fully qualified DSA-approved instructor.
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Automatic, one-to-one tuition with pick-up from your Radford Semele address included. The A425 runs straight through the village, so main-road practice is unavoidable, and the lanes off it cover the rural element.
Radford Semele is about two miles east of Leamington Spa on the A425, the route between central Leamington and Southam. That single road defines learning here. It carries steady through traffic, it changes limit as it enters and leaves the village, and the properties fronting it — including the 16th-century White Lion — mean parked vehicles and turning traffic in a 30 zone.
For a learner that is genuinely valuable, because reading a limit change as a plan rather than reacting to a sign is one of the more common test faults. A Radford Semele learner meets it several times a lesson without going looking for it.
Away from the A425 the village supplies the quiet work. The streets around St Nicholas Church and Radford Semele Church of England School give you narrow, parked-both-sides driving with school-time pedestrian activity, and the lanes towards Pounce Hill Farm and the old railway line, now a cycleway on the National Cycle Network, provide single-track rural driving with the blind bends and passing places a Warwick test can include.
Sits within driving lessons in Leamington Spa. Issy is a fully qualified DSA-approved instructor with 500+ learners taught, working in an electric automatic.
£75 for 90 minutes or £90 for two hours, with block rates of £270 for six hours and £450 for ten. Getting picked up costs nothing extra.
| 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 |
Listed publicly and applied consistently. Block bookings reduce the hourly rate; the intensive covers the test as well. See the full lesson prices.
Five roads and areas do most of the teaching in and around Radford Semele. Road classifications are as mapped on OpenStreetMap.
The main route between Leamington and Southam. Limit changes on entry and exit, through traffic at speed, and properties fronting the road with parked vehicles and turning movements. The most useful piece of road in the village.
Where the village road becomes a suburban approach. Junctions in sequence and increasing traffic density, leading into the Leamington one-way system.
Residential, narrow, parked both sides. Manoeuvre territory, with real gaps for parallel parking and space for pulling up on the right.
Radford Semele Church of England School concentrates pedestrian and parking activity at predictable times. Deliberately included, because a school-run street is the closest thing to a test’s hardest low-speed moment.
Single-track, hedged, with blind bends, passing places, mud in winter and standing water after rain. The rural driving most town learners are underprepared for.
Pick-up is from anywhere in Radford Semele and it is included in the lesson price. That covers the A425 frontage, the streets behind the church, the school area, and the housing on the eastern side of the village.
Send your postcode for confirmation. A straight answer either way.
Warwick (Wedgenock House), Wedgnock Lane, CV34 5AP — the nearest car test centre. GOV.UK lists car, motorcycle module 2 (on-road) and ADI part 3 tests there.
From Radford Semele the route to Wedgnock Lane runs west on the A425 through Leamington and on into Warwick, which means the A425 corridor gets driven on the way to every test-area lesson. Radford Semele learners tend to be strong on limit changes and rural lanes, and to need extra time on multi-lane roundabout approaches and bay parking at the centre.
The full breakdown is on the Warwick driving test routes page. DVSA guidance points to about 45 hours of professional tuition and 20 hours of private practice, and a test is only recommended when you are ready.
Nearby coverage for postcodes on the edge of this area.
The full Leamington area, including all six course types.
The automatic lessons page for the wider area.
Google reviews, published rather than solicited. 500+ learners taught since 2021 and a 5-star rating.
“Issy is a great instructor. He explained everything very patiently and learning with him was very easy.”
Adina Joita, Google review
“Patient, professional, and incredibly knowledgeable.”
Google review
Yes, with pick-up from any Radford Semele address included in the lesson price.
The first lesson stays off it, on the quieter streets behind the church. The A425 gets introduced once moving off, stopping and basic observation are solid, which is usually within the first few hours.
Wedgnock House on Wedgnock Lane, CV34 5AP. GOV.UK shows car tests, motorcycle module 2 and ADI part 3.
Automatic tuition exclusively, in an electric car, which means an automatic-only licence at the end.
DVSA reckons on around 45 hours of lessons and about 20 of private practice for a typical learner.
Send your postcode and preferred times for a straight answer on availability. If the A425 and the lanes, with an instructor who comes to the village 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
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Covering Radford Semele, Sydenham, Leamington Spa, Warwick and the surrounding Warwickshire area. Tuition is automatic only in a fully electric car, with no guaranteed pass.
