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Suburb of Auckland in New Zealand
the suburb

Most of the land around Māngere Bridge is formed from lava flows from Te Pane o Mataaho / Māngere Mountain. Archaeological records date fishing activities in the area as far back as the 15th century. The Ambury Regional Park and Māngere Lagoon areas have around 100 recorded archaeological sites, including stoneworks and shell middens. The mountain complex may have been home to thousands of people, with the mountain acting as a central place for rua (food storage pits). Paramount chief Kiwi Tāmaki would stay at Māngere seasonally, when it was the time of year to hunt sharks in the Manukau Harbour. In the early 1740s, Kiwi Tāmaki was slain in battle by the Te Taoū hapū of Ngāti Whātua. After the battle, most Waiohua fled the region, although many of the remaining Waiohua warriors regrouped at Te Pane o Mataaho. The warriors strew pipi shells around the base of the mountain to warn against attacks, but Te Taoū warriors covered the pipi shells with dogskin cloaks to muffle the sound, and raided the pā at dawn. An alternate name for the mountain, Te Ara Pueru ("the dogskin cloak path"), references this event. After the events of this war, Ngāti Whātua Ōrākei, a hapū created by the members of Te Taoū who remained near the Tāmaki isthmus, who intermarried with defeated members of Waiohua, settled the region. Originally the iwi were based on Maungakiekie / One Tree Hill, but after the death of paramount chief Tūperiri (circa 1795), the Māngere Bridge area and Onehunga became permanent kāinga (settlements) for Ngāti Whātua. The location was chosen because of the good quality soils for gardening, resources from the Manukau Harbour, and the area acting as a junction for surrounding trade routes. Māngere and Onehunga were considered a single settlement, as the Manukau Harbour was easily traversable by foot at low tide, connected by a natural basalt rock causeway, separated only by a narrow low tide stream. inviting Lieutenant Governor William Hobson to settle in Auckland, hoping this would protect the land and people living in Tāmaki Makaurau. In the winter of 1840, Ngāti Whātua Ōrākei moved the majority of the iwi to the Waitematā Harbour, with most iwi members resettling to the Remuera Ōrākei area, closer to the new European settlement at Waihorotiu (modern day Auckland CBD). A smaller Ngāti Whātua presence remained at Māngere Onehunga, as well as members of Te Uringutu. In the late 1840s, Governor George Grey asked Pōtatau Te Wherowhero (then known as a powerful chief and negotiator, but later the first Māori King) to settle his people in the Māngere Bridge area to defend the township of Auckland, in an arrangement similar to the European Fencible Corps settlements on the outskirts of the Auckland township. Pōtatau Te Wherowhero and his people (known as the Māori Militia) settled near to the land where his brother Kati Takiwaru lived, an area of around the base of Māngere Mountain. In the late 1850s, the St James Anglican Church was constructed as a joint project between European settlers and the Ngāti Mahuta militia, using scoria taken from Māngere Mountain. The prosperity was short lived, as on 9 July 1863, due to fears of the Māori King Movement, Governor Grey proclaimed that all Māori living in the South Auckland area needed to swear loyalty to the Queen and give up their weapons. Most people refused due to strong links to Tainui, leaving for the south before the Government's Invasion of the Waikato. Six men remained in the Māngere area, in order to tend to the farms and for ahi kā (land rights through continued occupation). and in August 1890 the Māngere Bridge School opened (previously the Māngere Central School served the area). The first Chinese New Zealanders arrived in the area in 1915, Between the 1920s and 1940s, a large proportion of the area was used for Chinese owned and operated market gardens. By 1954, over half of the registered market gardens in the Māngere Onehunga area were run by Chinese families. In 1932, a water reservoir was constructed atop Māngere Mountain, The area saw significant increase in traffic after the opening of the Auckland Airport in 1966.

Māngere Bridge Village. The commercial centre of the suburb, which developed in the 1950s and 1960s. and is the venue for the annual Māngere Bridge Santa Parade. The village includes the Māngere Bridge Library, opened in 1979 by member of parliament for Māngere, David Lange,
Māngere Memorial Hall. A public hall opened in 1955, commemorating the soldiers who served in the First and Second World Wars. Māngere Mountain Education Centre. Established in 1995 through the work of Te Ākitai Waiohua kuia Mahia Wilson, the centre acts as a living museum. Members of Waiohua iwi impart traditional knowledge of storytelling, tool making, traditional gardening and weaving to visitors. A house built in Māngere Bridge in the 1890s for use by Tāwhiao, the second Māori King, was relocated to the centre in 2017. St James Anglican Church. Opened on 1 January 1860 by George Selwyn, the church was built from scoria rock collected from Māngere Mountain, much of the work done by the Ngāti Mahuta Māori Militia led by Tāmati Ngāpora. Te Puea Memorial Marae. A tribal meeting ground for the Waikato Tainui hapū of Ngāti Kuiaarangi, Ngāti Mahuta, Ngāti Tai and Ngāti Whāwhākia. It includes a meeting house, also called Te Puea. The marae has helped hundreds of people find housing during the homelessness crisis, through a philosophy of manaakitanga.

The Māngere Bridge area was originally served by the Māngere Central School, which opened in Māngere in 1859. The first school in the suburb was Māngere Bridge School, which opened in 1890. These three schools are contributing primary schools (years 1–6) with rolls of , and students, respectively. Ambury Park Centre is a private secondary school (years 9–13) for students with disabilities. It has a roll of students. Horse riding and care of horses are an important feature of their educational programme. Auckland Seventh day Adventist High School is a state integrated secondary school (years 9–13) with a roll of students. All these schools are coeducational. Rolls are as of

Māngere Bridge is accessible by the Southwestern Motorway, which first served the suburb after the opening of the motorway bridge in 1983. In July 2021, the 36 and 38, frequent bus services to Manukau and Auckland Airport, replaced the 313 and 380. Māngere Bridge is a planned stop for the City Centre to Māngere light rail project. the Bridge Park Bowling Club in the 1990s, The Chinese Community Sports Centre was opened in October 1978.