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Barrington Street

610 reports at 129 addresses in Spreydon, the first in 2015, the latest 2026. 496 separate days somebody filed something about it.

610 reports129 addresses496 days reported onfrom the air, then44 documents carry the name18 businessesthe 47th street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

266 Barrington Street, 195 reports450 Barrington Street, 29 reports256 Barrington Street, 22 reports270 Barrington Street, 16 reports290 Barrington Street, 15 reports461 Barrington Street, 14 reports377 Barrington Street, 10 reports340 Barrington Street, 9 reports275A Barrington Street, 9 reports250 Barrington Street, 9 reports254 Barrington Street, 8 reports360 Barrington Street, 7 reports315 Barrington Street, 7 reports293 Barrington Street, 7 reports285a Barrington Street, 7 reports463 Barrington Street, 6 reports410 Barrington Street, 6 reports359 Barrington Street, 6 reports326 Barrington Street, 6 reports311 Barrington Street, 6 reports231 Barrington Street, 6 reports399 Barrington Street, 5 reports323 Barrington Street, 5 reports281 Barrington Street, 5 reports445 Barrington Street, 4 reports414 Barrington Street, 4 reports301 Barrington Street, 4 reports287 Barrington Street, 4 reports279 Barrington Street, 4 reports255 Barrington Street, 4 reports253 Barrington Street, 4 reports242 Barrington Street, 4 reports238 Barrington Street, 4 reports447A Barrington Street, 3 reports446 Barrington Street, 3 reports440 Barrington Street, 3 reports432 Barrington Street, 3 reports429 Barrington Street, 3 reports425 Barrington Street, 3 reports417 Barrington Street, 3 reports416 Barrington Street, 3 reports412 Barrington Street, 3 reports406 Barrington Street, 3 reports389 Barrington Street, 3 reports372A Barrington Street, 3 reports327 Barrington Street, 3 reports290–330 Barrington Street, 3 reports283A Barrington Street, 3 reports259 Barrington Street, 3 reports258 Barrington Street, 3 reports243 Barrington Street, 3 reports463A Barrington Street, 2 reports451 Barrington Street, 2 reports439 Barrington Street, 2 reports438 Barrington Street, 2 reports411 Barrington Street, 2 reports401 Barrington Street, 2 reports392 Barrington Street, 2 reports387 Barrington Street, 2 reports379 Barrington Street, 2 reports378 Barrington Street, 2 reports376 Barrington Street, 2 reports370 Barrington Street, 2 reports366 Barrington Street, 2 reports345 Barrington Street, 2 reports334 Barrington Street, 2 reports33213 Barrington Street, 2 reports33189 Barrington Street, 2 reports330 Barrington Street, 2 reports321 Barrington Street, 2 reports297 Barrington Street, 2 reports283 Barrington Street, 2 reports277 Barrington Street, 2 reports250C Barrington Street, 2 reports250A Barrington Street, 2 reports246 Barrington Street, 2 reports244 Barrington Street, 2 reports238D Barrington Street, 2 reports455 Barrington Street, 1 report453 Barrington Street, 1 report452 Barrington Street, 1 report449 Barrington Street, 1 report444 Barrington Street, 1 report443 Barrington Street, 1 report442A Barrington Street, 1 report442 Barrington Street, 1 report433 Barrington Street, 1 report429A Barrington Street, 1 report418 Barrington Street, 1 report413 Barrington Street, 1 report410A Barrington Street, 1 report408B Barrington Street, 1 report408A Barrington Street, 1 report408 Barrington Street, 1 report406F Barrington Street, 1 report406C Barrington Street, 1 report386 Barrington Street, 1 report382 Barrington Street, 1 report376B Barrington Street, 1 report372 Barrington Street, 1 report355 Barrington Street, 1 report354 Barrington Street, 1 report352 Barrington Street, 1 report350 Barrington Street, 1 report332 Barrington Street, 1 report328 Barrington Street, 1 report321-341 Barrington Street, 1 report319 Barrington Street, 1 report317A Barrington Street, 1 report305 Barrington Street, 1 report299 Barrington Street, 1 report295 Barrington Street, 1 report290-322 Barrington Street, 1 report280 Barrington Street, 1 report275 Barrington Street, 1 report273 Barrington Street, 1 report272 Barrington Street, 1 report271-275 Barrington Street, 1 report254A Barrington Street, 1 report249 Barrington Street, 1 report247B Barrington Street, 1 report245A Barrington Street, 1 report245 Barrington Street, 1 report241 Barrington Street, 1 report240A Barrington Street, 1 report240 Barrington Street, 1 report235-237 Barrington Street, 1 report235 Barrington Street, 1 report233 Barrington Street, 1 report

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 Spreydon.

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

and the other 69 the record names

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 civic shelf on it

Libraries, halls and the rest whose council open-data address is the street.

The businesses on it, 18

Premises whose address in the directory is Barrington Street, the commercial record alongside the civic one.

…and 6 more whose address names it.

The named ground

the council’s own structure register, bridges, boardwalks and steps standing nearby, the open map’s record.

Barrington Park shelter · 52 m away Barrington Park shelter · 53 m away

The crash record on it

NZTA’s record names Barrington Street in 72 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 18 seriously hurt, nobody killed.

The crashes it names, each one →

The stops on it, 1

1 Metro stop on Barrington Street in Spreydon, in ECan’s stop record: served by the Orbiter (anticlockwise).

Every route in the record →

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

Rubbish and Bins - General, a report photoGraffiti on a bus stop or public toilet, a report photoDamaged Street Sign, a report photoGraffiti on a traffic light pole or cabinet, or wa, a report photoGraffiti on a fence, building or structure, a report photoGraffiti on a traffic light pole or cabinet, or wa, a report photoFlooding, a report photoGraffiti on a fence, building or structure, a report photoGraffiti on a bus stop or public toilet, a report photoPark - General Request, a report photoRubbish and Bins - General, a report photoPothole, a report photo more photographs
on the Spreydon wall →

The latest on it

Questions, answered briefly

Where is Barrington Street?

In Spreydon, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Barrington Street?

610 reports at 129 addresses, most often graffiti & vandalism (180), rubbish & dumping (101), roads & footpaths (98).

When was Barrington Street first reported on?

2015, the record covers 496 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

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