Barry is a town in the Vale of Glamorgan, Wales, on the north coast of the Bristol Channel approximately 9 miles (14 kilometres) south-southwest of Cardiff. Barry is a seaside resort, with tourist attractions consisting of a number of beaches the resurrected Barry Island Enjoyment Park. According to Office for National Statistics 2016 quote data, the population of Barry was 54,673, making it the 3rd largest town in Wales, after Wrexham and also Merthyr Tydfil. Once a small town, Barry has actually absorbed its bigger neighbouring towns of Cadoxton and Barry Island, and currently, Sully. It grew substantially 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 management centre of the Vale of Glamorgan, as well as house to Barry Community United F.C. The roadway from Bonvilston was initially the B4266, as just Pontypridd Road within the community still is, and also the roadway from Emphasize Park right through the Vale to Bridgend was the B4265, as beyond Cardiff International Airport terminal it still is. Considering that the 1970s, parts of these roads are phoned number A4226, with the result that the A4226 emits from Weycock Cross roundabout in three directions. The town is frequently associated with Woodham Brothers scrapyard, an organisation that aided over 200 steam engines make it through into preservation. Although still a port, Barry is even more of a manufacturing community and also as a service centre for the Vale of Glamorgan. Barry Docks and the adjacent enterprise zone form the biggest work centre in the community. The docks, whose roadway web links were considerably boosted with the opening of the Docks Link Road in 1981, now have straight roadway gain access to with the M4 freeway. The docks can manage vessels approximately 23,000 tonnes and the first-class tidal placement close to the deep-water network of the Severn Estuary, permits arranged cruisings. With its transit sheds, storehouses and open storage, the docks are furnished to manage mass cargoes but with the junking of their previous electrical cranes, ships' very own derricks have to be made use of or cranes worked with in by ABP as called for. Two roll on/roll off berths are readily available as well as have been used by routes to Ireland as well as West Africa. As at January 2016, Intermodal raifreight web traffic is being operated from No. 2 Dock. With a new existence on the Mole in No. 1 Dock and also the provision of a concrete slipway from it, recreation rowing and rowboat sailing is offered (2016 ). Most of commercial companies lie in the dock area. The biggest are the chemical creating problems such as Cabot Carbon and also Dow Corning who recently finished the advancement of the biggest silicones plant in Europe. Various other primary companies in Barry Docks are Jewson Builders' Merchants, Western Welding as well as Engineering, Bumnelly, and Associated British Ports Holdings that, considering that 1982 have actually 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 forests, streams, as well as access to a pebbly coastline. In the park is the previous Barry Railway Company viaduct with 13 arched spans standing 110 ft high. Adhering to the closure of the Vale of Glamorgan line to guests in between Barry as well as Bridgend in 1964, it was reopened on 10 June 2005 and for most of its 19 miles, supplies a scenic view and also link to Llantwit Major as well as beyond to Bridgend.