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 reanimated Barry Island Enjoyment Park. According to Office for National Statistics 2016 quote information, the population of Barry was 54,673, making it the 3rd biggest town in Wales, after Wrexham and also Merthyr Tydfil. Once a small town, Barry has absorbed its larger neighbouring towns of Cadoxton and Barry Island, and also currently, Sully. It grew considerably from the 1880s with the growth of Barry Docks, which in 1913 was the biggest coal port on the planet. The place was possibly called after Saint Baruc. Barry is the management centre of the Vale of Glamorgan, and residence to Barry Community United F.C. The road from Bonvilston was originally 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 past Cardiff International Airport it still is. Because the 1970s, parts of these roads are numbered A4226, so the A4226 radiates from Weycock Cross roundabout in three instructions. The town is often associated with Woodham Brothers scrapyard, a service that aided over 200 steam engines survive right into conservation. Although still a port, Barry is more of a manufacturing town and as a service centre for the Vale of Glamorgan. Barry Docks and the adjacent enterprise zone form the largest work centre in the town. The docks, whose roadway web links were considerably enhanced with the opening of the Docks Link Road in 1981, currently have direct road access with the M4 motorway. The anchors can take care of vessels approximately 23,000 tonnes as well as the excellent tidal position close to the deep-water network of the Severn Estuary, permits set up sailings. With its transit sheds, storage facilities and also open storage space, the anchors are equipped to deal with bulk cargoes yet with the ditching of their former electric cranes, ships' own derricks need to be made use of or cranes hired in by ABP as called for. Two roll on/roll off berths are offered and have actually been made use of by routes to Ireland as well as West Africa. As at January 2016, Intermodal raifreight website traffic is being run from No. 2 Dock. With a new visibility on the Mole in No. 1 Dock and the arrangement of a concrete slipway from it, recreation rowing as well as rowboat sailing is offered (2016 ). Most of industrial firms lie in the dock location. The largest are the chemical generating concerns such as Cabot Carbon and also Dow Corning who not long ago completed the growth of the largest silicones plant in Europe. Various other major companies in Barry Docks are Jewson Builders' Merchants, Western Welding as well as Engineering, Bumnelly, as well as Associated British Ports Holdings who, considering that 1982 have actually run the anchors as successors to the British Transport Docks Board. To the west of Barry is Porthkerry Park. This is a huge location of open space, with woodlands, streams, and access to a pebbly coastline. In the park is the former Barry Railway Company viaduct with 13 arched periods standing 110 feet high. Following the closure of the Vale of Glamorgan line to passengers between Barry and also Bridgend in 1964, it was reopened on 10 June 2005 and also for the majority of its 19 miles, supplies a panorama and link to Llantwit Major as well as beyond to Bridgend.