Horeke (Māori: Hōreke) is a settlement in the upper reaches of the Hokianga Harbour in Northland, New Zealand.

The Horeke basalts are located near the town, and can be viewed on an easy stroll through the Wairere Boulders, a commercial park.

[6] The town is at the western end of the 87 km (54 mi) km (54 mi) Pou Herenga Tai - Twin Coast Cycle Trail from Opua,[7] which opened fully in 2017.

[8] A timber mill, shipbuilding yard, trading post and settlement for workers was set up in about 1826 by a partnership of Sydney merchants, namely Gordon D. Browne and the firm of Raine and Ramsay (Thomas Raine and David Ramsay).

[9] One of the first European settlements in New Zealand, it was initially called Deptford, after the Royal Navy shipyard of that name in England.

[10] David Clarke was in charge of the yard,[11][12] which employed about 30 Pākehā and 40 Māori ship builders.

[13] Three ships were built – the 40-ton schooner Enterprise in 1827, the 140-ton brigantine New Zealander in 1828, and the 394 (or 392)-ton barque Sir George Murray in 1830.

[11] Thomas McDonnell Sr. bought the yard and the Sir George Murray in 1831, and his business was the centre of timber trading in the Hokianga in the 1830s.

[15] The Wesleyan missionary John Hobbs opened Māngungu Mission, about a mile from the shipyard, in 1828.

The results were 53.3% European (Pākehā), 67.5% Māori, 6.8% Pasifika, 2.1% Asian, and 1.6% other, which includes people giving their ethnicity as "New Zealander".