Henley on Klip is a town inMidvaal Local Municipality inGauteng, South Africa. It is situated next to Highbury off exit 27 on theR59 along theKlip River betweenJohannesburg andVereeniging.

Henley on Klip
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Coordinates:26°32′7″S28°03′40″E / 26.53528°S 28.06111°E /-26.53528; 28.06111
Country	South Africa
Province	Gauteng
District	Sedibeng
Municipality	Midvaal
Established	1904
Area [1]
• Total	11.37 km2 (4.39 sq mi)
Population  (2011)[1]
• Total	5,874
• Density	520/km2 (1,300/sq mi)
Racial makeup (2011) [1]
• Black African	40.2%
• Coloured	2.4%
• Indian/Asian	1.5%
• White	55.6%
• Other	0.4%
First languages (2011) [1]
• English	41.9%
• Afrikaans	27.9%
• Zulu	9.8%
• Sotho	7.8%
• Other	12.6%
Time zone	UTC+2 (SAST)
Postal code (street)	1961
PO box	1962
Area code	016

The village was founded in 1904,^[2] by Advocate Horace Kent. Born in 1855 inHenley on Thames,England, Kent came toSouth Africa in 1898. The area where Henley on Klip is located reminded Kent of his hometown inEngland,Henley on Thames. Kent, in conjunction with the Small Farms Company (SFC), bought the land from a Mr Van Der Westhuizen for a price of 5000 pounds, and the land was divided intosmallholdings from 0.4 to 30 hectares (1 to 80 acres).

In 1904, the SFC decided to build theKidson Weir on the Klip River in Henley on Klip. The weir was named after Fenning Kidson, the grandson of an1820 settler. Fenning was educated inEngland, but returned toSouth Africaas a young man and became a transport rider, a contemporary of Sir PercyFitzpatrick. Soon after the outbreak of the Anglo Boer War, news came toKidson that a commando was on his way to his farm to arrest him. Under thenoses of the Boers he escaped, riding sidesaddle, his burly frame crammedinto his wife's riding habit. He finally made his way to Natal, butreturned to theTransvaal after the war, settling in Henley on Klip with hiswife, Edith. The family home was named Tilham, which is the manor house onthe river at the corner of Regatta and Shillingford Roads

• Henley on Klip Community Policing Forum
• Henley Watch
• Lions Club
• Rotary Club
• Henley Performing Arts
• First Henley Scouts
• Henley @ Heart
• Henley Soup Souls

There are four schools and home schooling tutor centres in the village.

• Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy for Girls
• Henley Primary School
• Assemblies of God (AOG) College
• Hope Christian Academy
• Orchards Academy (Impaq Centre)
• Nicholas Bhengu Theological College (A non-denominational college established in 1991 and named after Reverend Nicholas Hepworth Bhengu of the Assemblies of God is headquartered in the Assemblies of God Conference Center, Henley on Klip)

At 14:15 on 28 January 1970, a schoolbus stalled on a level crossing and was hit by a passenger train; 23 children were killed and 16 were injured. Johan le Roux, a matric scholar at Dr Malan Hoerskool inMeyerton, saved two children by pushing them out of a bus window before the train hit the bus, and he died in the accident.^[3][4]

• Kai Luke Brümmer, actor

• Midvaal Local Municipality
• Vaal Triangle Info
• Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy Foundation
• Vaalmeander
• 90.6FM - The Vaal's Hit Station
• Henley High & Preparatory School
• Henley Watch
• HENLEY-ON-KLIP