Takapu Valley

Takapau Valley
Basic information
Local authority	Wellington City
Electoral ward	Northern
Population	306
Postcode(s)	5028
Facilities
Train station(s)	Takapu Road Railway Station
Surrounds
North	Ranui Heights,Cannons Creek
East	Belmont
South	Grenada North, Horokiwi
West	Tawa

Takapu Valley is one of the northern suburbs of Wellington, New Zealand, and is rural. The only road, Takapau Road which runs by the Takapau Stream goes down past Grenada North to the intersection with the Johnsonville-Porirua Motorway, and to Tawa where most facilities are. There is a supermarket and the Takapu Road Railway Station near the motorway intersection, but neither are in the valley.

The population was 306 people in the 2013 census, an increase of 72 people from the 2006 census.

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. Three of their sons Edward, Thomas and William farmed in the valley.

The Takapu Road School operated from the 1890s to the 1920s.

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.

In 2017 the Woodman Farm in Takapau Valley which had been in the same family for 150 years was up for sale.

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