Dallington, New Zealand

Suburb in Christchurch, New Zealand

Dallington
Suburb
Dallington Terrace
Coordinates: 43°30′49″S 172°40′26″E / 43.5136°S 172.674°E / -43.5136; 172.674
Country	New Zealand
City	Christchurch
Local authority	Christchurch City Council
Electoral ward	Burwood
Community board	Waitai Coastal-Burwood-Linwood
Area [1]
• Land	83 ha (205 acres)
Population  (June 2024)[2]
• Total	2,560

	Shirley
Richmond	Dallington	(Residential red zone)
	(Residential red zone)

Dallington is a suburb of Christchurch, New Zealand, on the north-east side of the city.

It is bounded mainly by the Avon River / Ōtākaro, stretching in a circular area from the intersection of Gayhurst Road, Dallington Terrace and Locksley Avenue along to New Brighton Road, North Parade and Banks Avenue where it meets the intersection at the other end of Dallington Terrace and River Road. Its neighbouring suburbs are Burwood, Shirley, Richmond, and Avonside.

First mentioned in The Press in 1883 when "beautiful suburban villa sites on the banks of the Avon in the suburb of Dallington, lately known as Broom Farm" are advertised for sale by Henry Jekyll.^[3]

On 4 September 2010, it was severely hit by a 7.1 magnitude earthquake, causing immense damage. Consequently, the St Paul's parish church and school which had suffered greatly from the effects of the quake, were forced to relocate their church services to the Marian College chapel and the students to the Catholic Cathedral College site, for the following couple of years estimated that it would take to rebuild. The college accommodated the entire primary school community of St Paul's School for a short time. But the February 2011 Christchurch earthquake (6.3 magnitude) caused far worse devastation to the city than the September 2010 earthquake. Large areas of Dallington were placed into a residential red zone, under which houses were acquired and demolished by the Crown.