Barry is a town in the Vale of Glamorgan, Wales, on the north coastline of the Bristol Network roughly 9 miles (14 kilometres) south-southwest of Cardiff. Barry is a seaside resort, with destinations including several beaches the resurrected Barry Island Satisfaction Park. According to Office for National Statistics 2016 price quote information, the population of Barry was 54,673, making it the 3rd biggest community in Wales, after Wrexham and Merthyr Tydfil. As soon as a tiny village, Barry has actually absorbed its larger adjoining villages of Cadoxton as well as Barry Island, as well as now, Sully. It expanded substantially from the 1880s with the advancement of Barry Docks, which in 1913 was the largest coal port on the planet. The area was potentially called after Saint Baruc. Barry is the management centre of the Vale of Glamorgan, and residence to Barry Community United F.C. The road from Bonvilston was originally the B4266, as just Pontypridd Road within the town still is, as well as the road from Highlight Park right through the Vale to Bridgend was the B4265, as beyond Cardiff International Airport terminal it still is. Given that the 1970s, parts of these roadways are numbered A4226, so the A4226 radiates from Weycock Cross roundabout in three instructions. The town is often related to Woodham Brothers scrapyard, a company that helped over 200 steam locomotives survive right into conservation. Although still a port, Barry is more of a production community and also as a solution centre for the Vale of Glamorgan. Barry Docks and also the adjoining industrial park create the biggest work centre in the town. The anchors, whose road web links were considerably improved with the opening of the Docks Link Road in 1981, now have direct road access with the M4 motorway. The docks can handle vessels approximately 23,000 tonnes as well as the first-class tidal placement near to the deep-water channel of the Severn Estuary, permits scheduled cruisings. With its transit sheds, warehouses as well as open storage, the anchors are geared up to handle bulk freights yet with the scrapping of their previous electric cranes, ships' own derricks have to be made use of or cranes worked with in by ABP as needed. Two roll on/roll off berths are readily available and also have actually been made use of by routes to Ireland as well as West Africa. As at January 2016, Intermodal raifreight traffic is being operated from No. 2 Dock. With a new presence on the Mole in No. 1 Dock and the provision of a concrete slipway from it, recreation rowing and also dinghy sailing is offered (2016 ). Most of commercial companies lie in the dock location. The largest are the chemical producing worries such as Cabot Carbon and also Dow Corning who not long ago finished the growth of the biggest silicones plant in Europe. Other major companies in Barry Docks are Jewson Builders' Merchants, Western Welding as well as Design, Bumnelly, as well as Associated British Ports Holdings that, because 1982 have actually run the anchors as followers to the British Transport Docks Board. To the west of Barry is Porthkerry Park. This is a large location of open space, with timberlands, streams, and access to a pebbly beach. In the park is the previous Barry Railway Company viaduct with 13 curved spans standing 110 ft high. Adhering to the closure of the Vale of Glamorgan line to guests between Barry and also Bridgend in 1964, it was resumed on 10 June 2005 and also for a lot of its 19 miles, gives a scenic view and link to Llantwit Major and also beyond to Bridgend.