Barry is a town in the Vale of Glamorgan, Wales, on the north coast of the Bristol Channel around 9 miles (14 kilometres) south-southwest of Cardiff. Barry is a seaside resort, with tourist attractions including several beaches the resurrected Barry Island Satisfaction Park. According to Office for National Statistics 2016 quote data, the population of Barry was 54,673, making it the third biggest community in Wales, after Wrexham and also Merthyr Tydfil. When a small town, Barry has absorbed its larger neighbouring villages of Cadoxton and Barry Island, and also currently, Sully. It grew considerably from the 1880s with the advancement of Barry Docks, which in 1913 was the largest coal port on the planet. The place was potentially named after Saint Baruc. Barry is the administrative centre of the Vale of Glamorgan, and also residence to Barry Community United F.C. The road from Bonvilston was originally the B4266, as only Pontypridd Road within the community still is, and also the roadway from Highlight Park throughout the Vale to Bridgend was the B4265, as beyond Cardiff International Flight terminal it still is. Since the 1970s, parts of these roadways are phoned number A4226, with the result that the A4226 emits from Weycock Cross roundabout in three instructions. The community is typically associated with Woodham Brothers scrapyard, an organisation that aided over 200 steam locomotives survive right into conservation. Although still a port, Barry is more of a manufacturing community and also as a service centre for the Vale of Glamorgan. Barry Docks as well as the adjoining industrial park form the largest employment centre in the community. The anchors, whose roadway links were significantly boosted with the opening of the Docks Link Road in 1981, currently have straight roadway gain access to with the M4 motorway. The docks can deal with vessels as much as 23,000 tonnes and also the excellent tidal setting close to the deep-water channel of the Severn Estuary, permits arranged cruisings. With its transit sheds, stockrooms and also open storage space, the anchors are geared up to take care of mass freights however with the ditching of their former electrical cranes, ships' very own derricks need to be used or cranes hired in by ABP as called for. Two roll on/roll off berths are available and also 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 presence on the Mole in No. 1 Dock and the provision of a concrete slipway from it, leisure rowing as well as dinghy cruising is offered (2016 ). Most of commercial companies are located in the dock area. The largest are the chemical creating concerns such as Cabot Carbon as well as Dow Corning who not long ago completed the development of the biggest silicones plant in Europe. Various other major companies 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 actually run the anchors as followers to the British Transport Docks Board. To the west of Barry is Porthkerry Park. This is a huge location of open space, with timberlands, streams, as well as access to a pebbly beach. 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 travelers in between Barry and Bridgend in 1964, it was reopened on 10 June 2005 and for the majority of its 19 miles, offers a scenic view and also link to Llantwit Major and past to Bridgend.