Kings Road and Greys Road cap you at three hours and charge on Sundays. Three hours costs £2.10 at the station car park and £9.00 at Mill Meadows.

Henley-on-Thames has five public car parks and they are run by three different bodies at three very different prices. The two biggest, on Kings Road and Greys Road, hold 450 cars between them and throw you out after three hours. The only all-day district council option in the town has 54 spaces. And the cheapest three-hour stay in Henley is not a council car park at all: it is the railway station, at £2.10.

Every charge below was checked on 1 September 2026 against the operator’s own page. Where a number is not published anywhere I could verify, this page says so rather than guessing.

What three hours costs

Bar chart comparing the cost of a three-hour stay in four Henley-on-Thames car parks: the station 2 pounds 10, Kings Road and Greys Road 3 pounds 50, Southfields 5 pounds 30 and Mill Meadows 9 pounds

The three district council car parks

Kings Road, Greys Road and Southfields belong to South Oxfordshire District Council and are managed for it by Saba. All three are open 24 hours, and all three charge 8am to 6pm Monday to Saturday and 10am to 5pm on Sunday. Sunday is not free in Henley.

The first hour is free in the two central car parks, but you still have to take a ticket. No ticket is a penalty even inside the free hour.

Kings Road Greys Road Southfields
Postcode RG9 2DQ RG9 2AA RG9 1BJ
Spaces 317 133 54
Disabled bays 19 8 3
Max stay 3 hours 3 hours 23 hours
No return within 2 hours 1 hour 1 hour
Up to 1 hour free with ticket free with ticket not sold
Up to 2 hours £2.30 £2.30 not sold
Up to 3 hours £3.50 £3.50 not sold
Up to 5 hours not sold not sold £5.30
Up to 10 hours not sold not sold £6.30
Motorcycles free free free
PayByPhone code 810585 810586 810587
Toilets yes yes no
EV charge points 14 12 none

Sources: the council’s own pages for Kings Road, Greys Road and Southfields.

Two details in that table catch people out. The “no return” rules differ between the two central car parks: leave Kings Road and you cannot park there again for two hours, but at Greys Road it is one hour. And Southfields, the only place you can leave a car all day, is tucked off Goodall Close with 54 spaces against Kings Road’s 317.

Prices went up on 1 April 2026, by about 5 per cent. If you find a page quoting £2.00 for two hours or £3.00 for three, it is out of date, and several Henley listings still are. The council’s own parking policy page is one of them: the only tariff notice it publishes is the variation order that took effect on 1 April 2025. The current charges exist only on the individual car park pages above.

Mill Meadows, and why it costs so much more

Mill Meadows is not the district council’s. It belongs to Henley Town Council, it is reached from Meadow Road, and it is priced like a riverside attraction rather than a town centre car park (Henley Town Council, parking). The tariff applies from 1 April 2026 to 31 March 2027:

  • Up to 1 hour: £2.30
  • Up to 2 hours: £4.50
  • Up to 4 hours: £9.00
  • Over 4 hours: £11.70
  • After 7pm: free
  • Free all day on 25 December, 26 December and 1 January

Two hours at Mill Meadows costs £4.50. Two hours at Kings Road costs £2.30, and the two car parks are both a short walk from the town centre. There is no three-hour band at Mill Meadows, so a three-hour stay lands in the four-hour bracket at £9.00.

During Henley Royal Regatta week the car park goes to a flat daily rate: £18 on the Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, and £20 from Friday to Sunday.

Pay at the machines on site or through MiPermit. The council’s own advice is worth following: the car park fills up, so find a space before you pay.

Henley station: 271 spaces and the cheapest short stay

The station car park on Station Road, RG9 1AY, is run by APCOA. It has 271 spaces, including six for buses and coaches and five for disabled drivers, and it is open around the clock (APCOA, Henley-on-Thames Station).

  • Up to 3 hours: £2.10
  • Up to 4 hours: £3.20
  • Up to 6 hours: £4.20
  • All day: £6.30

Pay through the APCOA Connect app with location code 2131. The three-hour price is £1.40 cheaper than the council car parks and there is no maximum stay, which is why Henley Town Council itself points visitors here and to Dry Leas at the rugby club rather than into the town centre.

Blue badge parking

The rules differ by operator, and the difference matters.

  • District council car parks. Blue badge holders park free in all of them with the badge displayed. At Kings Road and Greys Road the three-hour maximum stay still applies. At Southfields there is no time limit at all, which makes it the only place in Henley a badge holder can leave a car all day for nothing.
  • Station car park. Parking is free for badge holders, but you have to register the vehicle on APCOA’s Blue Badge portal first. Turning up and displaying the badge is not enough.
  • On-street. Oxfordshire County Council confirms that badge holders displaying a valid badge do not need a resident’s parking permit.

Blue badges themselves are issued by Oxfordshire County Council, not the district (blue badges for disabled parking).

Permits and season tickets

Southfields is the only district council car park in Henley that sells permits. A monthly permit is £68, or £34 at the discounted rate. The discount is for electric vehicles able to travel at least 20 miles with zero emissions, and you have to send a copy of the V5. Market traders using the car park one day a week pay £164 a year or £14 a month. Availability is limited and the council asks you to phone 01235 470118 first. Kings Road and Greys Road sell no permits at all.

Mill Meadows sells its own, and they are the most expensive parking commitment in the town:

  • Annual residents’ permit, seven days: £375.00
  • Residents aged 65 and over: £94.00
  • Business season ticket, Monday to Friday: £27.00 weekly, £64.00 monthly, £182.00 quarterly, £485.00 annually

On-street parking: three bodies, no published price

This is the part of Henley parking nobody explains clearly, so here is the arrangement as each authority states it.

South Oxfordshire District Council says on-street pay and display in Henley is provided by Oxfordshire County Council, that Henley Town Council maintains the machines and handles enforcement, and that the county council is now responsible for enforcing illegal parking across the district (on-street parking). Henley Town Council’s own page says the designated residents’ parking zones are managed by the county council.

For resident permits, the county council’s rules are (apply for a new virtual resident’s parking permit):

  • Permits are virtual, and enforcement officers read them from handheld devices.
  • In Henley, unlike Oxford, permits are designated by locality rather than by a lettered zone, and are valid in bays signed for permit holders on individual roads.
  • One permit per eligible applicant, tied to a specific vehicle.
  • The vehicle must be no more than 2 metres high, 5 metres long, 2 metres wide and 2,250kg. A large van will not qualify.
  • Allow 10 working days.

The county council does not publish a price. Its costs page tells you to look your address up on the controlled parking zone map and says it will email you a payment link after the application is processed, with the link expiring in 72 hours. This page does not quote an on-street tariff or permit price for Henley, because neither council publishes one I could verify today. The county’s parking permits line is 01865 519800.

Electric vehicles

There are 26 charge points in Henley’s two central car parks, 14 at Kings Road and 12 at Greys Road, installed under the county-wide Park and Charge Oxfordshire scheme (EV charging sites in our car parks). Greys Road also hosts a Co Wheels electric car club vehicle. Charging is booked and priced through Park and Charge, not the council.

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