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Barrington Street

353 reports at 32 addresses in Addington, the first in 2015, the latest 2026. 281 separate days somebody filed something about it.

353 reports32 addresses281 days reported onfrom the air, then44 documents carry the namethe 172nd street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

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Each report dot is the average of the spots reports were filed from, where reporters stood on Barrington Street, not the street’s surveyed line. The strong outline is Addington.

From the air, then

Barrington Street from the air, 1940-1944
1940-1944 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Barrington Street from the air, 1970-1974
1970-1974 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Barrington Street from the air, 1975-1979
1975-1979 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ

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 addresses on it

What got reported

Year by year

In the written record

Archive documents carrying the street’s name: leads and citations, not verified history. 44 on the shelf; the 12 earliest:

The rest are a search away, the whole shelf, for the name →

The named ground

Named water within 150 m of a reported pin, measured to the line or the edge; the council’s own structure register, bridges, boardwalks and steps standing nearby, the open map’s record.

Jacksons Creek stream · 8 m away Addington Park footbridge · 94 m away

The crash record on it

NZTA’s record names Barrington Street in 66 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 1 person killed, 19 seriously hurt.

The crashes it names, each one →

Its file in the papers

Papers Past records that surfaced when the archive searched for the street’s name, they answered the search; whether they are about this street is a reader’s call, at the link.

As it was reported

Abandoned Vehicle, a report photoTraffic Signals, a report photoRoad Signage, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoGraffiti on a playground or in a park, a report photoGraffiti on a playground or in a park, a report photoGraffiti on a road, footpath or bridge, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoGraffiti on a road, footpath or bridge, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoStreet Light Outage, a report photo more photographs
on the Addington wall →

The latest on it

Questions, answered briefly

Where is Barrington Street?

In Addington, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Barrington Street?

353 reports at 32 addresses, most often graffiti & vandalism (158), rubbish & dumping (74), trees & parks (51).

When was Barrington Street first reported on?

2015, the record covers 281 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

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