Barry is a town in the Vale of Glamorgan, Wales, on the north coastline of the Bristol Channel approximately 9 miles (14 kilometres) south-southwest of Cardiff. Barry is a seaside resort, with tourist attractions consisting of numerous beaches the resurrected Barry Island Pleasure Park. According to Office for National Statistics 2016 estimate information, the population of Barry was 54,673, making it the third biggest town in Wales, after Wrexham as well as Merthyr Tydfil. As soon as a tiny town, Barry has absorbed its bigger neighbouring towns of Cadoxton as well as Barry Island, and currently, Sully. It grew considerably from the 1880s with the development of Barry Docks, which in 1913 was the largest coal port on the planet. The location was possibly called after Saint Baruc. Barry is the management centre of the Vale of Glamorgan, and house to Barry Community United F.C. The roadway from Bonvilston was originally the B4266, as just Pontypridd Road within the town still is, and the road from Emphasize Park throughout the Vale to Bridgend was the B4265, as beyond Cardiff International Flight terminal it still is. Because the 1970s, parts of these roads are numbered A4226, so the A4226 emits from Weycock Cross roundabout in three directions. The community is frequently associated with Woodham Brothers scrapyard, a company that assisted over 200 steam locomotives survive into conservation. Although still a port, Barry is more of a manufacturing town and also as a solution centre for the Vale of Glamorgan. Barry Docks and also the adjacent industrial area develop the largest employment centre in the community. The docks, whose road links were drastically improved with the opening of the Docks Link Road in 1981, currently have direct road gain access to with the M4 freeway. The anchors can take care of vessels as much as 23,000 tonnes as well as the first-rate tidal placement near to the deep-water channel of the Severn Estuary, enables arranged sailings. With its transit sheds, stockrooms as well as open storage space, the anchors are equipped to take care of bulk freights however with the ditching of their former electric cranes, ships' own derricks need to be made use of or cranes hired in by ABP as required. Two roll on/roll off berths are available as well as have been used by courses to Ireland and West Africa. As at January 2016, Intermodal raifreight web traffic is being operated from No. 2 Dock. With a new existence on the Mole in No. 1 Dock and also the stipulation of a concrete slipway from it, recreation rowing as well as dinghy cruising is offered (2016 ). Most of commercial firms are located in the dock area. The biggest are the chemical generating worries such as Cabot Carbon and also Dow Corning who recently finished the growth of the largest silicones plant in Europe. Various other main employers in Barry Docks are Jewson Builders' Merchants, Western Welding as well as Design, Bumnelly, and Associated British Ports Holdings who, given that 1982 have actually run the anchors as successors to the British Transport Docks Board. To the west of Barry is Porthkerry Park. This is a huge location of open space, with timberlands, streams, and accessibility to a pebbly beach. In the park is the previous Barry Railway Company viaduct with 13 curved spans standing 110 feet high. Adhering to the closure of the Vale of Glamorgan line to passengers in between Barry and also Bridgend in 1964, it was resumed on 10 June 2005 and also for a lot of its 19 miles, offers a panorama as well as link to Llantwit Major and beyond to Bridgend.