Barry is a community in the Vale of Glamorgan, Wales, on the north shore of the Bristol Network about 9 miles (14 kilometres) south-southwest of Cardiff. Barry is a seaside resort, with destinations consisting of numerous beaches the resurrected Barry Island Satisfaction Park. According to Office for National Statistics 2016 estimate data, the population of Barry was 54,673, making it the 3rd largest town in Wales, after Wrexham as well as Merthyr Tydfil. As soon as a small village, Barry has actually absorbed its larger neighbouring villages of Cadoxton and also Barry Island, as well as currently, Sully. It expanded significantly from the 1880s with the growth of Barry Docks, which in 1913 was the largest coal port on the planet. The place was perhaps called after Saint Baruc. Barry is the management centre of the Vale of Glamorgan, and home to Barry Town United F.C. The road from Bonvilston was originally the B4266, as only Pontypridd Road within the town still is, as well as the road from Highlight Park throughout the Vale to Bridgend was the B4265, as past Cardiff International Airport it still is. Because the 1970s, parts of these roads are phoned number A4226, so the A4226 emits from Weycock Cross roundabout in 3 directions. The community is often associated with Woodham Brothers scrapyard, a service that aided over 200 steam engines survive right into preservation. Although still a port, Barry is even more of a manufacturing community and also as a solution centre for the Vale of Glamorgan. Barry Docks as well as the adjoining industrial park form the biggest employment centre in the community. The anchors, whose roadway links were significantly boosted with the opening of the Docks Link Road in 1981, now have straight road access with the M4 freeway. The docks can manage vessels as much as 23,000 tonnes as well as the first-class tidal placement close to the deep-water channel of the Severn Estuary, permits scheduled cruisings. With its transit sheds, storage facilities and also open storage space, the anchors are equipped to deal with mass freights but with the ditching of their former electric cranes, ships' own derricks need to be made use of or cranes hired in by ABP as needed. 2 roll on/roll off berths are readily available and have been used by courses to Ireland and also West Africa. As at January 2016, Intermodal raifreight website traffic is being operated from No. 2 Dock. With a new visibility on the Mole in No. 1 Dock as well as the provision of a concrete slipway from it, recreation rowing and dinghy cruising is readily available (2016 ). The majority of industrial companies lie in the dock location. The biggest are the chemical producing problems such as Cabot Carbon and Dow Corning that not long ago finished the growth of the biggest silicones plant in Europe. Other major employers in Barry Docks are Jewson Builders' Merchants, Western Welding and also Design, Bumnelly, and Associated British Ports Holdings who, given that 1982 have run the docks as successors to the British Transport Docks Board. To the west of Barry is Porthkerry Park. This is a large area of open space, with timberlands, streams, and also accessibility to a pebbly coastline. In the park is the previous Barry Railway Company viaduct with 13 arched periods standing 110 feet high. Complying with 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 also for a lot of its 19 miles, provides a scenic view and link to Llantwit Major and past to Bridgend.