When originally formed back in the early days of the village of Wauchope, Carrington street commenced on the eastern side of the present roundabout at High (originally named Highway Road) and Cameron Street (originally Wharf Road) and continued straight towards Port Macquarie.

It passed immediately in front of the former Police Station and Courthouse (later the Station Master's Residence) to Maher's Hill (where the Co-op store now stands.) From there the road was known as Port Lane, (now Oxley Highway).

Around 1910 when the decision was made to change the route of the railway from near Beechwood to Wauchope, and because Wauchope was one of the few private villages in the state, around 1910-11,the State Government had acquire by resumption from what had been the Thomas Wallace property a section of land between Wallace and Randall Streets for the railway line.

Around 1924, the portion of this road across the North Coast Railway line was converted into the chicane across the level crossing that exists today.

From that time on, Carrington Street was considered to have started from the eastern side of the level crossing.