Barry is a town in the Vale of Glamorgan, Wales, on the north shore of the Bristol Channel around 9 miles (14 km) south-southwest of Cardiff. Barry is a seaside resort, with attractions consisting of several beaches the resurrected Barry Island Enjoyment Park. According to Office for National Statistics 2016 quote information, the population of Barry was 54,673, making it the third biggest town in Wales, after Wrexham as well as Merthyr Tydfil. When a tiny town, Barry has actually absorbed its larger adjoining villages of Cadoxton as well as Barry Island, and now, Sully. It grew significantly from the 1880s with the development of Barry Docks, which in 1913 was the biggest coal port in the world. The area was possibly named after Saint Baruc. Barry is the management centre of the Vale of Glamorgan, as well as house to Barry Town United F.C. The roadway from Bonvilston was initially the B4266, as only Pontypridd Road within the community still is, and the roadway from Emphasize Park throughout the Vale to Bridgend was the B4265, as beyond Cardiff International Airport it still is. Given that the 1970s, parts of these roadways are numbered A4226, so the A4226 emits from Weycock Cross roundabout in three instructions. The community is usually connected with Woodham Brothers scrapyard, a company that assisted over 200 steam engines make it through into preservation. Although still a port, Barry is even more of a manufacturing community and also as a service centre for the Vale of Glamorgan. Barry Docks and the adjoining industrial area form the biggest work centre in the town. The docks, whose roadway links were dramatically improved with the opening of the Docks Link Road in 1981, currently have straight roadway accessibility with the M4 freeway. The docks can deal with vessels as much as 23,000 tonnes and the superior tidal setting near the deep-water channel of the Severn Estuary, allows for set up sailings. With its transportation sheds, stockrooms and also open storage space, the anchors are geared up to handle mass freights however with the junking of their former electrical cranes, ships' own derricks have 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 actually 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 visibility on the Mole in No. 1 Dock and the stipulation of a concrete slipway from it, leisure rowing and dinghy sailing is available (2016 ). Most of commercial firms are located in the dock area. The largest are the chemical creating problems such as Cabot Carbon as well as Dow Corning who recently finished the development of the biggest silicones plant in Europe. Other primary employers in Barry Docks are Jewson Builders' Merchants, Western Welding as well as Design, Bumnelly, and also Associated British Ports Holdings who, given that 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 woodlands, streams, and accessibility to a pebbly beach. In the park is the previous Barry Railway Company viaduct with 13 arched periods standing 110 feet high. Following the closure of the Vale of Glamorgan line to passengers between Barry and also Bridgend in 1964, it was reopened on 10 June 2005 and for a lot of its 19 miles, gives a panorama as well as link to Llantwit Major and also past to Bridgend.