Barry is a town in the Vale of Glamorgan, Wales, on the north shore of the Bristol Network around 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 quote information, the population of Barry was 54,673, making it the third largest town in Wales, after Wrexham and Merthyr Tydfil. When a little village, Barry has absorbed its bigger adjoining towns of Cadoxton and Barry Island, and currently, Sully. It expanded dramatically from the 1880s with the growth of Barry Docks, which in 1913 was the biggest coal port in the world. The place was possibly named after Saint Baruc. Barry is the administrative centre of the Vale of Glamorgan, and house to Barry Community United F.C. The road from Bonvilston was originally the B4266, as just Pontypridd Road within the community still is, as well as the road from Highlight Park throughout the Vale to Bridgend was the B4265, as beyond Cardiff International Airport it still is. Because the 1970s, parts of these roadways are numbered A4226, so the A4226 emits from Weycock Cross roundabout in three instructions. The town is typically related to Woodham Brothers scrapyard, a service that aided over 200 steam engines endure right into preservation. Although still a port, Barry is even more of a manufacturing town and also as a service centre for the Vale of Glamorgan. Barry Docks and also the adjoining industrial area create the biggest work centre in the town. The docks, whose roadway web links were considerably improved with the opening of the Docks Link Road in 1981, now have direct road gain access to with the M4 freeway. The anchors can take care of vessels as much as 23,000 tonnes and the first-class tidal placement near to the deep-water network of the Severn Estuary, permits set up cruisings. With its transportation sheds, warehouses as well as open storage space, the anchors are equipped to deal with bulk cargoes yet with the scrapping of their former electrical cranes, ships' own derricks have to be used or cranes hired in by ABP as required. 2 roll on/roll off berths are available as well as have been made use of by paths to Ireland and also West Africa. As at January 2016, Intermodal raifreight traffic is being operated from No. 2 Dock. With a new existence on the Mole in No. 1 Dock and the stipulation of a concrete slipway from it, recreation rowing and also rowboat sailing is offered (2016 ). The majority of commercial companies lie in the dock area. The biggest are the chemical creating worries such as Cabot Carbon as well as Dow Corning that recently finished the growth of the largest silicones plant in Europe. Other major employers in Barry Docks are Jewson Builders' Merchants, Western Welding and also Engineering, Bumnelly, as well as Associated British Ports Holdings that, considering that 1982 have run the docks as followers to the British Transport Docks Board. To the west of Barry is Porthkerry Park. This is a large area of open space, with woodlands, streams, as well as access to a pebbly coastline. In the park is the former Barry Railway Company viaduct with 13 arched spans standing 110 feet high. Following the closure of the Vale of Glamorgan line to passengers between Barry and also Bridgend in 1964, it was resumed on 10 June 2005 and for most of its 19 miles, offers a scenic view as well as link to Llantwit Major and also beyond to Bridgend.