Barry is a community in the Vale of Glamorgan, Wales, on the north coast of the Bristol Network approximately 9 miles (14 km) south-southwest of Cardiff. Barry is a seaside resort, with attractions consisting of numerous 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 largest community in Wales, after Wrexham and also Merthyr Tydfil. Once a small town, Barry has actually absorbed its larger neighbouring villages of Cadoxton and Barry Island, and now, 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 location was perhaps named after Saint Baruc. Barry is the administrative centre of the Vale of Glamorgan, and also house to Barry Community United F.C. The road from Bonvilston was initially the B4266, as only Pontypridd Road within the town still is, and also the road from Emphasize Park throughout the Vale to Bridgend was the B4265, as past Cardiff International Airport terminal it still is. Considering that the 1970s, parts of these roads are numbered A4226, with the result that the A4226 emits from Weycock Cross roundabout in three directions. The town is frequently related to Woodham Brothers scrapyard, a service that aided over 200 steam engines survive into conservation. Although still a port, Barry is even more of a manufacturing community and as a solution centre for the Vale of Glamorgan. Barry Docks and the adjacent industrial area form the biggest work centre in the community. The anchors, whose roadway web links were significantly improved with the opening of the Docks Link Road in 1981, now have straight road accessibility with the M4 freeway. The anchors can deal with vessels up to 23,000 tonnes as well as the first-rate tidal setting near to the deep-water network of the Severn Estuary, allows for arranged cruisings. With its transit sheds, stockrooms as well as open storage, the anchors are geared up to take care of bulk freights yet with the ditching of their previous electric cranes, ships' very own derricks have to be made use of or cranes hired in by ABP as required. Two roll on/roll off berths are available and also have actually been used by routes to Ireland and also West Africa. As at January 2016, Intermodal raifreight web traffic is being run from No. 2 Dock. With a brand-new presence on the Mole in No. 1 Dock and also the provision of a concrete slipway from it, leisure rowing as well as rowboat sailing is offered (2016 ). The majority of industrial companies are located in the dock location. The largest are the chemical producing problems such as Cabot Carbon and also Dow Corning who recently 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, and Associated British Ports Holdings who, because 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 timberlands, streams, as well as access to a pebbly beach. In the park is the former Barry Railway Company viaduct with 13 arched spans standing 110 feet high. Complying with the closure of the Vale of Glamorgan line to passengers between Barry as well as Bridgend in 1964, it was reopened on 10 June 2005 as well as for the majority of its 19 miles, supplies a scenic view and also link to Llantwit Major and also past to Bridgend.