Henley is a large rural constituency covering South Eastern Oxfordshire. It includes three small towns, Henley itself, Thame and Watlington together with several large villages such as Chinnor, Sonning Common and Wheatley, and a number of smaller villages and hamlets. It borders Reading and includes most of the South Oxfordshire local government district with the exception of Didcot and Wallingford and, following boundary changes it now includes parts of the Cherwell District, notably Kirtlington, Otmoor and Islip.