| Type | Weeklynewspaper |
|---|---|
| Owner(s) | Baylis Media |
| Editor | Phil Simms |
| Founded | 1885 |
| Language | English |
| Headquarters | Station Road, Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire |
| Circulation | 11,428[1] |
| Website | henleystandard |
TheHenley Standard is a weeklynewspaper based inHenley-on-Thames,Oxfordshire,England. It is published by Higgs Group and is one of only a few independently-owned local newspapers in the UK. It is also the only newspaper dedicated entirely to Henley and the surrounding villages.
TheStandard covers Henley town and an area ofsouth Oxfordshire as far asWatlington,Benson andGoring-on-Thames, as well asCaversham andWargrave inBerkshire and theHambleden valley inBuckinghamshire. The paper's circulation is about 10,000 copies a week and it claims a readership of about 35,000.[2] It is owned by the Luker family and the editor is Phil Simms.[3]
The predecessor of theHenley Standard, first published in 1885, wasThe Henley Free Press. It became theHenley and South Oxfordshire Standard in 1892. Its name was shortened in 1956 to theHenley Standard.[2]
TheHenley and South Oxfordshire Standard was the first organ to publish works by the authorGeorge Orwell. These were poems that the author, under his real name Eric Blair, wrote aged 10 on the outbreak of theFirst World War in 1914 and also on the death ofLord Kitchener in 1916.
In 2025, Higgs Group sold the newspaper to Baylis Media.[4]
In 2019, the Henley Standard was the named the UK's best smaller paid-for weekly of the year in the Society of Editors' Regional Press Awards. It was praised for having "maintained its tradition of solid, in-depth reporting with a variety of news, features, diary items, investigations and campaigns."[5]
In January 2022, Henley Standard editor Simon Bradshaw was awarded the British Empire Medal for services to his patch during the coronavirus pandemic. The paper had continued to publish in print and online during the lockdown, with traffic to its website increasing by 31 per cent.[6] New editorial features included a series of "Lockdown Diaries" contributed by readers.
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