Barry is a community in the Vale of Glamorgan, Wales, on the north shore of the Bristol Channel around 9 miles (14 km) south-southwest of Cardiff. Barry is a seaside resort, with attractions including several beaches the reanimated Barry Island Satisfaction Park. According to Office for National Statistics 2016 estimate information, the population of Barry was 54,673, making it the 3rd biggest community in Wales, after Wrexham as well as Merthyr Tydfil. As soon as a small village, Barry has absorbed its bigger adjoining towns of Cadoxton and Barry Island, and currently, Sully. It grew significantly from the 1880s with the growth of Barry Docks, which in 1913 was the largest coal port in the world. The location was perhaps named after Saint Baruc. Barry is the administrative centre of the Vale of Glamorgan, and residence 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 roadway from Highlight Park throughout the Vale to Bridgend was the B4265, as past Cardiff International Airport it still is. Because the 1970s, parts of these roadways are numbered A4226, so the A4226 radiates from Weycock Cross roundabout in three directions. The community is typically related to Woodham Brothers scrapyard, an organisation that aided over 200 steam engines survive right into preservation. Although still a port, Barry is even more of a manufacturing town and as a service centre for the Vale of Glamorgan. Barry Docks and the adjacent industrial park develop the largest employment centre in the town. The docks, whose road web links were dramatically enhanced with the opening of the Docks Link Road in 1981, currently have straight roadway gain access to with the M4 freeway. The docks can deal with vessels as much as 23,000 tonnes and the excellent tidal placement close to the deep-water network of the Severn Estuary, allows for set up sailings. With its transportation sheds, stockrooms as well as open storage space, the docks are furnished to manage bulk freights yet with the ditching of their former electrical cranes, ships' own derricks need to be used or cranes hired in by ABP as required. 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 traffic is being run from No. 2 Dock. With a brand-new existence on the Mole in No. 1 Dock as well as the provision of a concrete slipway from it, recreation rowing and also dinghy cruising is offered (2016 ). The majority of commercial firms lie in the dock location. The biggest are the chemical generating issues such as Cabot Carbon as well as Dow Corning who recently completed the development of the biggest silicones plant in Europe. Other primary companies in Barry Docks are Jewson Builders' Merchants, Western Welding and Design, 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 location of open space, with woodlands, streams, as well as access to a pebbly beach. In the park is the previous Barry Railway Company viaduct with 13 curved spans standing 110 ft high. Adhering to the closure of the Vale of Glamorgan line to travelers in between Barry as well as Bridgend in 1964, it was reopened on 10 June 2005 and for a lot of its 19 miles, gives a panorama as well as link to Llantwit Major as well as past to Bridgend.