Barry is a town in the Vale of Glamorgan, Wales, on the north coast of the Bristol Channel roughly 9 miles (14 km) south-southwest of Cardiff. Barry is a seaside resort, with tourist attractions consisting of numerous coastlines the reanimated Barry Island Satisfaction Park. According to Office for National Statistics 2016 estimate data, the population of Barry was 54,673, making it the 3rd largest town in Wales, after Wrexham as well as Merthyr Tydfil. As soon as a little town, Barry has absorbed its larger adjoining villages of Cadoxton as well as Barry Island, and now, Sully. It grew considerably from the 1880s with the growth 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, and home to Barry Town United F.C. The roadway from Bonvilston was initially the B4266, as just Pontypridd Road within the town still is, and the road from Emphasize Park throughout the Vale to Bridgend was the B4265, as past Cardiff International Airport it still is. Considering that the 1970s, parts of these roadways are phoned number A4226, so the A4226 radiates from Weycock Cross roundabout in three instructions. The town is typically associated with Woodham Brothers scrapyard, a business that aided over 200 steam engines make it through into conservation. Although still a port, Barry is even more of a production town and also as a service centre for the Vale of Glamorgan. Barry Docks and also the adjoining industrial park form the biggest employment centre in the community. The anchors, whose roadway links were substantially enhanced with the opening of the Docks Link Road in 1981, currently have straight road gain access to with the M4 freeway. The docks can deal with vessels as much as 23,000 tonnes and also the excellent tidal position close to the deep-water network of the Severn Estuary, enables scheduled sailings. With its transportation sheds, storage facilities and also open storage space, the anchors are geared up to take care of bulk cargoes yet with the scrapping of their previous electrical cranes, ships' own derricks have to be made use of or cranes hired in by ABP as required. 2 roll on/roll off berths are available and have 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 presence on the Mole in No. 1 Dock as well as the provision of a concrete slipway from it, leisure rowing and also rowboat sailing is readily available (2016 ). Most of commercial companies are located in the dock area. The largest are the chemical creating issues such as Cabot Carbon and also Dow Corning who not long ago finished the development of the largest silicones plant in Europe. Other primary companies in Barry Docks are Jewson Builders' Merchants, Western Welding as well as Design, Bumnelly, and Associated British Ports Holdings who, since 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 large area of open space, with forests, streams, and access to a pebbly coastline. In the park is the previous Barry Railway Company viaduct with 13 curved periods standing 110 ft high. Complying with the closure of the Vale of Glamorgan line to passengers in between Barry and also Bridgend in 1964, it was reopened on 10 June 2005 and for a lot of its 19 miles, supplies a panorama and also link to Llantwit Major as well as beyond to Bridgend.