Barry is a town in the Vale of Glamorgan, Wales, on the north coastline of the Bristol Channel 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 Pleasure Park. According to Office for National Statistics 2016 price quote data, the population of Barry was 54,673, making it the 3rd biggest town in Wales, after Wrexham as well as Merthyr Tydfil. When a small village, Barry has absorbed its bigger adjoining towns of Cadoxton as well as Barry Island, and now, Sully. It expanded substantially from the 1880s with the advancement of Barry Docks, which in 1913 was the biggest coal port on the planet. The area was potentially called after Saint Baruc. Barry is the administrative centre of the Vale of Glamorgan, and residence to Barry Community United F.C. The roadway from Bonvilston was initially the B4266, as only Pontypridd Road within the community still is, and also the road from Emphasize Park right through the Vale to Bridgend was the B4265, as past Cardiff International Airport terminal it still is. Considering that the 1970s, parts of these roadways are numbered A4226, with the result that the A4226 emits from Weycock Cross roundabout in 3 directions. The town is usually connected with Woodham Brothers scrapyard, an organisation that aided over 200 steam locomotives make it through right into conservation. Although still a port, Barry is more of a production community and also as a service centre for the Vale of Glamorgan. Barry Docks and the adjacent industrial area develop the largest employment centre in the community. The anchors, whose roadway links were substantially improved with the opening of the Docks Link Road in 1981, currently have direct road accessibility with the M4 freeway. The anchors can manage vessels up to 23,000 tonnes as well as the first-rate tidal position close to the deep-water channel of the Severn Estuary, enables arranged sailings. With its transit sheds, storehouses as well as open storage, the anchors are equipped to manage bulk cargoes but with the junking of their former electric cranes, ships' very own derricks need to be made use of or cranes worked with in by ABP as required. Two roll on/roll off berths are readily available and also 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 as well as the provision of a concrete slipway from it, recreation rowing as well as rowboat cruising is readily available (2016 ). Most of commercial firms lie in the dock area. The biggest are the chemical creating issues such as Cabot Carbon and Dow Corning who recently completed the advancement of the largest silicones plant in Europe. Various other main employers in Barry Docks are Jewson Builders' Merchants, Western Welding as well as Engineering, Bumnelly, and also Associated British Ports Holdings who, considering that 1982 have run the anchors 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 also access to a pebbly coastline. In the park is the previous Barry Railway Company viaduct with 13 arched spans standing 110 feet high. Adhering to the closure of the Vale of Glamorgan line to travelers in between Barry and Bridgend in 1964, it was resumed on 10 June 2005 and for the majority of its 19 miles, offers a scenic view and also link to Llantwit Major and also beyond to Bridgend.