Barry is a town in the Vale of Glamorgan, Wales, on the north coast of the Bristol Network around 9 miles (14 kilometres) south-southwest of Cardiff. Barry is a seaside resort, with destinations consisting of numerous beaches the resurrected Barry Island Enjoyment Park. According to Office for National Statistics 2016 estimate information, the population of Barry was 54,673, making it the 3rd biggest community in Wales, after Wrexham and also Merthyr Tydfil. As soon as a little town, Barry has absorbed its bigger adjoining towns of Cadoxton as well as Barry Island, as well as now, Sully. It grew dramatically from the 1880s with the growth of Barry Docks, which in 1913 was the largest coal port in the world. The area was perhaps named after Saint Baruc. Barry is the administrative centre of the Vale of Glamorgan, and home to Barry Town United F.C. The road from Bonvilston was originally the B4266, as just Pontypridd Road within the town still is, as well as the roadway from Emphasize Park right through the Vale to Bridgend was the B4265, as beyond Cardiff International Flight terminal it still is. Since the 1970s, parts of these roads are numbered A4226, with the result that the A4226 emits from Weycock Cross roundabout in three instructions. The community is commonly related to Woodham Brothers scrapyard, an organisation that aided over 200 steam engines endure right into preservation. Although still a port, Barry is even more of a manufacturing community and also as a solution centre for the Vale of Glamorgan. Barry Docks as well as the adjacent industrial park form the biggest work centre in the town. The docks, whose road web links were drastically enhanced with the opening of the Docks Link Road in 1981, currently have direct roadway accessibility with the M4 freeway. The docks can take care of vessels approximately 23,000 tonnes as well as the first-class tidal placement close to the deep-water network of the Severn Estuary, enables set up cruisings. With its transit sheds, warehouses and also open storage, the anchors are geared up to manage bulk cargoes but with the scrapping of their former electric cranes, ships' very own derricks have to be used or cranes hired in by ABP as called for. 2 roll on/roll off berths are offered and have actually been made use of by routes to Ireland and also West Africa. As at January 2016, Intermodal raifreight traffic is being run from No. 2 Dock. With a new existence on the Mole in No. 1 Dock and also the provision of a concrete slipway from it, recreation rowing and also dinghy cruising is readily available (2016 ). The majority of commercial firms are located in the dock location. The largest are the chemical generating problems such as Cabot Carbon and also Dow Corning that recently finished the development of the largest silicones plant in Europe. Other main companies in Barry Docks are Jewson Builders' Merchants, Western Welding and also Engineering, Bumnelly, and also Associated British Ports Holdings who, because 1982 have actually run the docks as successors to the British Transport Docks Board. To the west of Barry is Porthkerry Park. This is a big area of open space, with woodlands, streams, and also accessibility to a pebbly coastline. In the park is the former Barry Railway Company viaduct with 13 curved periods standing 110 ft high. Complying with the closure of the Vale of Glamorgan line to guests between Barry as well as Bridgend in 1964, it was resumed on 10 June 2005 and for most of its 19 miles, provides a scenic view and also link to Llantwit Major as well as beyond to Bridgend.