Barry is a town in the Vale of Glamorgan, Wales, on the north shore of the Bristol Channel about 9 miles (14 kilometres) south-southwest of Cardiff. Barry is a seaside resort, with tourist attractions including numerous beaches the reanimated Barry Island Pleasure Park. According to Office for National Statistics 2016 price quote information, the population of Barry was 54,673, making it the 3rd largest town in Wales, after Wrexham and Merthyr Tydfil. Once a little town, Barry has actually absorbed its larger neighbouring villages of Cadoxton as well as Barry Island, as well as currently, Sully. It expanded considerably from the 1880s with the development of Barry Docks, which in 1913 was the biggest coal port worldwide. The area was perhaps named after Saint Baruc. Barry is the management centre of the Vale of Glamorgan, and also house to Barry Town United F.C. The roadway from Bonvilston was initially the B4266, as just Pontypridd Road within the community still is, and the road 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 radiates from Weycock Cross roundabout in 3 directions. The community is commonly associated with Woodham Brothers scrapyard, a service that helped over 200 steam locomotives endure right into preservation. Although still a port, Barry is even more of a manufacturing community and as a service centre for the Vale of Glamorgan. Barry Docks and the adjoining industrial area form the largest employment centre in the community. The anchors, whose road links were drastically boosted with the opening of the Docks Link Road in 1981, currently have straight road gain access to with the M4 freeway. The anchors can deal with vessels approximately 23,000 tonnes and also the first-class tidal setting near to the deep-water network of the Severn Estuary, enables set up sailings. With its transportation sheds, storage facilities and open storage, the docks are outfitted to take care of mass freights however with the junking of their former electrical cranes, ships' very own derricks have to be made use of or cranes hired in by ABP as called for. Two roll on/roll off berths are available as well as have been used by routes to Ireland and also 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 provision of a concrete slipway from it, leisure rowing and also rowboat cruising is readily available (2016 ). The majority of commercial companies are located in the dock area. The biggest are the chemical creating issues such as Cabot Carbon and Dow Corning who recently finished the growth of the biggest silicones plant in Europe. Various other main companies in Barry Docks are Jewson Builders' Merchants, Western Welding and also Design, Bumnelly, as well as Associated British Ports Holdings who, since 1982 have 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 timberlands, streams, and access to a pebbly coastline. In the park is the former 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 reopened on 10 June 2005 and also for a lot of its 19 miles, supplies a panorama and link to Llantwit Major as well as past to Bridgend.