Barry is a town in the Vale of Glamorgan, Wales, on the north coastline of the Bristol Channel approximately 9 miles (14 km) south-southwest of Cardiff. Barry is a seaside resort, with destinations consisting of a number of beaches the reanimated Barry Island Pleasure Park. According to Office for National Statistics 2016 quote data, 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 tiny town, Barry has absorbed its bigger neighbouring villages of Cadoxton and also Barry Island, and now, Sully. It expanded dramatically from the 1880s with the growth of Barry Docks, which in 1913 was the biggest coal port in the world. The location was potentially named after Saint Baruc. Barry is the management centre of the Vale of Glamorgan, and also house to Barry Community United F.C. The roadway from Bonvilston was originally the B4266, as just Pontypridd Road within the community still is, and the road from Emphasize Park right through the Vale to Bridgend was the B4265, as beyond Cardiff International Airport terminal it still is. Since the 1970s, parts of these roadways are numbered A4226, so the A4226 emits from Weycock Cross roundabout in three directions. The town is typically connected with Woodham Brothers scrapyard, a company that assisted over 200 steam locomotives survive into preservation. Although still a port, Barry is even more of a manufacturing community and as a service centre for the Vale of Glamorgan. Barry Docks as well as the adjoining enterprise zone form the biggest work centre in the town. The anchors, whose roadway web links were drastically boosted with the opening of the Docks Link Road in 1981, currently have direct road accessibility with the M4 motorway. The anchors can handle vessels as much as 23,000 tonnes and also the first-rate tidal setting near the deep-water network of the Severn Estuary, allows for set up cruisings. With its transportation sheds, storehouses as well as open storage, the anchors are geared up to handle bulk cargoes but with the scrapping of their former electrical cranes, ships' very own derricks need to be used or cranes worked with in by ABP as called for. Two roll on/roll off berths are readily available and have actually been used by paths to Ireland as well as West Africa. As at January 2016, Intermodal raifreight web traffic is being run from No. 2 Dock. With a new presence on the Mole in No. 1 Dock and the stipulation of a concrete slipway from it, leisure rowing as well as rowboat cruising is available (2016 ). The majority of commercial companies are located in the dock area. The biggest are the chemical creating worries such as Cabot Carbon and also Dow Corning that recently completed the development of the largest silicones plant in Europe. Various other major companies in Barry Docks are Jewson Builders' Merchants, Western Welding and also Design, Bumnelly, as well as Associated British Ports Holdings that, because 1982 have run the docks as followers to the British Transport Docks Board. To the west of Barry is Porthkerry Park. This is a huge location of open space, with timberlands, streams, and accessibility to a pebbly beach. In the park is the former Barry Railway Company viaduct with 13 curved spans standing 110 ft high. Adhering to the closure of the Vale of Glamorgan line to passengers in between Barry as well as Bridgend in 1964, it was resumed on 10 June 2005 and for a lot of its 19 miles, gives a scenic view and link to Llantwit Major as well as beyond to Bridgend.