Barry is a town in the Vale of Glamorgan, Wales, on the north coastline of the Bristol Channel about 9 miles (14 kilometres) south-southwest of Cardiff. Barry is a seaside resort, with attractions consisting of a number of coastlines the reanimated Barry Island Satisfaction Park. According to Office for National Statistics 2016 quote information, the population of Barry was 54,673, making it the 3rd biggest community in Wales, after Wrexham as well as Merthyr Tydfil. Once a tiny town, Barry has actually absorbed its bigger adjoining villages of Cadoxton and Barry Island, and also currently, Sully. It grew substantially from the 1880s with the advancement of Barry Docks, which in 1913 was the biggest coal port in the world. The location 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 roadway from Bonvilston was originally the B4266, as only Pontypridd Road within the community still is, and also the road from Emphasize Park throughout the Vale to Bridgend was the B4265, as past Cardiff International Flight terminal it still is. Considering that the 1970s, parts of these roads are phoned number A4226, so the A4226 radiates from Weycock Cross roundabout in three instructions. The community is frequently connected with Woodham Brothers scrapyard, a company that assisted 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 adjacent industrial area form the biggest employment centre in the town. The docks, whose roadway links were significantly improved with the opening of the Docks Link Road in 1981, currently have straight road gain access to with the M4 freeway. The docks can take care of vessels up to 23,000 tonnes and also the excellent tidal setting near to the deep-water channel of the Severn Estuary, enables set up cruisings. With its transit sheds, storehouses and open storage, the docks are furnished to manage mass freights however with the ditching of their former electrical cranes, ships' very own derricks need to be made use of or cranes hired in by ABP as called for. Two roll on/roll off berths are readily available and also have been used by paths to Ireland and West Africa. As at January 2016, Intermodal raifreight web traffic is being run from No. 2 Dock. With a new visibility on the Mole in No. 1 Dock and the stipulation of a concrete slipway from it, leisure rowing and dinghy sailing is readily available (2016 ). The majority of commercial companies are located in the dock location. The biggest are the chemical creating issues such as Cabot Carbon and Dow Corning who recently finished the development of the biggest silicones plant in Europe. Other primary companies in Barry Docks are Jewson Builders' Merchants, Western Welding and Engineering, Bumnelly, as well as Associated British Ports Holdings who, considering 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 huge area of open space, with woodlands, streams, and access to a pebbly coastline. In the park is the former Barry Railway Company viaduct with 13 curved spans standing 110 ft 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 as well as for a lot of its 19 miles, offers a panorama as well as link to Llantwit Major and past to Bridgend.