Takapu Valley, one of the northern suburbs of Wellington, New Zealand, is a rural area.

There is a supermarket and the Takapu Road Railway Station near the motorway intersection, but neither is in the valley itself.

The valley was settled in the 19th century, when country sections were sold by the New Zealand Company, many to absentee landowners.

An early farmer was John Edwards who arrived in Wellington on the ‘’Catherine Stewart Forbes’’with his wife Phoebe and eight children in 1841.

James and Lionel Nairn transferred their dairy herd to Takapu Road in the 1920s, as in Khandallah (and Ngaio) houses were replacing the remaining farms.

[3] Takapu-Horokiwi statistical area includes Horokiwi and covers 19.10 km2 (7.37 sq mi).