Tips for driving on the roads of England

If in your sightseeing trip through england you'll travel in a rental car, you must adapt to drive to the left along their roads.

And if you also do not choose to rent a car with automatic transmission, you will also need a adaptation period to the management of left hand gear shift.

With our experience of several trips to britain where we have rented a car to drive on its roads, below we are going to give you some basic tips for travel by car in england.

Tips for driving in England

As soon as you get behind the wheel of the car and start driving, you should initially do so fairly caution to adapt well to driving on the left.

The first and main difficulty you are going to find it when you drive from the arrival airport are the numerous roundabouts.

Roundabouts in England

Please note that at the time enter the car at a roundabout, you are used to looking at traffic arriving from the left, but BE CAREFUL, in England cars arrive from the right.

You have to be very attentive and you have to get used to it little by little, also taking into account that in roundabouts It is where you will have the greatest risks.

Likewise, watch out for crossroads, where you will also find traffic and directions changed compared to usual when driving by car in Spain.

What are the motorways in England like?

La England's motorway network It is really good, with very long stretches of three and even four lanes in each direction.

Of course, there is usually a lot of traffic, especially near cities.

When traveling in highway in england, you will see that most of the sections are long straight sections and, furthermore, there is hardly any slope or winding sections.

If you want to travel quickly from one place to another, without hesitation, choose the routes with the longest stretches of highways.

You will soon see that in England, if you travel on national or local roads, your trip is going to take a long time given the large number of towns that intersect, with numerous roundabouts and intersections with traffic lights.

Signage on the roads of England

In your car trip through england you will see that the signage is very good.

And specifically, it offers us an excellent specific signage of tourist places, with signs with a brown background that complement the usual signage with traffic directions.

Radars on roads in England

Be careful the radars what you will find in the english roads.

On the highway you will find many sections where they warn you of the existence of speed cameras.

A system speed control very common on highways (they warn you in advance...) is, starting from an initial recording of your speed, and with a subsequent recording several kilometers later, the average is calculated to whom you have traveled in those kilometers.

This way it is checked if you have passed the speed limit established in that controlled section.

You will also see that practically in every small town that you cross with your car there is a radar, which you can see without problems because they warn you and show it to you in their bright yellow box.

If you go you will also travel in the north of the UK, and specifically you are going to drive through scotland, you are going to find different circumstances, especially on the roads of the Highlandyes, or Highlands.

UK speed limits

I recommend you read the article with Tips for driving on Scottish roads and consult What are the speed limits in the UK?.

And if you think rent a car for your sightseeing trip through England, I also recommend this article with tips for renting a car.