Barry is a town in the Vale of Glamorgan, Wales, on the north coast of the Bristol Network approximately 9 miles (14 km) south-southwest of Cardiff. Barry is a seaside resort, with destinations including a number of beaches the resurrected Barry Island Satisfaction Park. According to Office for National Statistics 2016 price quote data, the population of Barry was 54,673, making it the third biggest community in Wales, after Wrexham and Merthyr Tydfil. Once a small village, Barry has absorbed its larger adjoining towns of Cadoxton and also Barry Island, and also now, Sully. It grew substantially from the 1880s with the development of Barry Docks, which in 1913 was the biggest coal port worldwide. The location was perhaps named after Saint Baruc. Barry is the management centre of the Vale of Glamorgan, and also residence to Barry Community United F.C. The roadway from Bonvilston was initially the B4266, as just Pontypridd Road within the community still is, as well as the roadway from Highlight Park throughout the Vale to Bridgend was the B4265, as past Cardiff International Flight terminal it still is. Because the 1970s, parts of these roads are phoned number A4226, so the A4226 emits from Weycock Cross roundabout in three instructions. The town is usually related to Woodham Brothers scrapyard, a business that helped over 200 steam locomotives endure right into conservation. Although still a port, Barry is more of a production community and as a service centre for the Vale of Glamorgan. Barry Docks as well as the adjacent industrial park form the largest employment centre in the community. The anchors, whose roadway web links were drastically improved with the opening of the Docks Link Road in 1981, currently have direct roadway access with the M4 freeway. The docks can manage vessels approximately 23,000 tonnes and the excellent tidal position close to the deep-water channel of the Severn Estuary, allows for set up sailings. With its transportation sheds, storehouses as well as open storage space, the anchors are furnished to take care of mass cargoes but with the junking of their former electric cranes, ships' very own derricks have to be made use of or cranes worked with in by ABP as needed. Two roll on/roll off berths are offered and have been used by paths to Ireland and West Africa. As at January 2016, Intermodal raifreight traffic is being operated from No. 2 Dock. With a brand-new presence on the Mole in No. 1 Dock and also the arrangement of a concrete slipway from it, recreation rowing as well as rowboat sailing is offered (2016 ). The majority of commercial firms are located in the dock area. The biggest are the chemical creating problems such as Cabot Carbon and also Dow Corning who not long ago finished the development of the largest silicones plant in Europe. Various other major employers in Barry Docks are Jewson Builders' Merchants, Western Welding as well as Design, Bumnelly, as well as Associated British Ports Holdings who, since 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 large location of open space, with woodlands, streams, as well as accessibility to a pebbly beach. In the park is the previous Barry Railway Company viaduct with 13 arched spans standing 110 feet high. Following the closure of the Vale of Glamorgan line to guests between Barry as well as Bridgend in 1964, it was reopened on 10 June 2005 and also for the majority of its 19 miles, provides a panorama as well as link to Llantwit Major as well as beyond to Bridgend.