217 Barrington Street
1 council report since August 2025, 1 carrying a photograph. The street’s heaviest record is 105 Barrington Street, 30 reports on file.
From the air, then
Sourced from Canterbury Maps and partners. LINZ, CC BY 3.0 NZ. Each frame is cut from Environment Canterbury’s historic imagery MapServer for that decade, only where the Footprints layer names a CC BY survey (NZAM-covered spots stay out). RetroLens holds more Crown aerials →
The green nearby
- Barrington Park, 246 m to the edge · Sports ground · 6 ha · playground, 122 pieces
- Somerfield Park, 399 m to the edge · Sports ground · 3 ha · playground, 64 pieces
- Cheviot Reserve, 498 m to the edge
Parks within half a kilometre, measured to the boundary, the council’s open data. The whole roll is at /parks.
The civic shelf nearby
- Sydenham Cemetery, 254 m away · Cemetery
- Spreydon Library, 266 m away · Library
Libraries, halls and the rest within half a kilometre, the council’s open data.
On the doorstep
- Denture South, 55 m away · Dentists
- Milton Street Takeaways, 59 m away · Fast food
- Curry Junction, 63 m away · Restaurants
- Hong Kong Star Chinese Takeaway, 66 m away · Fast food
Businesses within four hundred metres, measured at the pin, OpenStreetMap and the council directories.
The bus nearby
- Barrington St near Strauss Pl, 82 m away · route 44
- Frankleigh St near Alvarez Pl, 93 m away · route 60, route 120, the Orbiter (clockwise)
The closest Metro stops, within four hundred and fifty metres.
The tracks through here
- Walk and bike track through Somerfield, 7 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Somerfield, 11 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Somerfield, 120 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Somerfield, 356 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Somerfield, 378 m to the line · walk · bike
Tracks whose line passes within half a kilometre, the council’s open data.
The named ground
the council’s own structure register, bridges, boardwalks and steps standing nearby, the open map’s record.
Renting nearby
new bonds in Somerfield ran about $567 a week, $17 above the city median of $550, the suburb page keeps the rent record →.
What gets reported here
Photographed here 1 on record
What’s on record
Traffic Signals, 18 Aug 2025 Red “walking” signal to say stop or that the light will go for green when it’s your turn not working on north west light near church.
Elsewhere on Barrington Street
- 105 Barrington Street, 30 reports
- 93 Barrington Street, 11 reports
- 118 Barrington Street, 10 reports
- 23 Barrington Street, 9 reports
- 217b Barrington Street, 9 reports
- 100 Barrington Street, 8 reports
- 94 Barrington Street, 7 reports
- 137 Barrington Street, 7 reports
The street’s crash record
NZTA’s record names Barrington Street in 51 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 12 seriously hurt, nobody killed.
The civic layer
This ground votes in Spreydon ward, the Spreydon-Cashmere-Heathcote community board is its local layer. Ward lines don’t always follow suburb lines; this one is measured at the pin, not the suburb’s centre. The whole roll is at /wards.
Barrington Street, the whole record → · Everything about Somerfield → · What stood on this ground → · On the map → · From the air, RetroLens holds the Crown’s aerials back to 1936; search the address there →
Questions, answered briefly
1 council report on record since August 2025, most often traffic signals (1).
Somerfield, Christchurch, on Barrington Street.
Nothing on the heritage register at this exact spot, the record around this ground →
Barrington Park, 246 m to its edge, 6 ha.