Barry is a town in the Vale of Glamorgan, Wales, on the north coast of the Bristol Channel about 9 miles (14 km) south-southwest of Cardiff. Barry is a seaside resort, with attractions consisting of several 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 biggest town in Wales, after Wrexham and also Merthyr Tydfil. As soon as a tiny village, Barry has absorbed its bigger neighbouring villages of Cadoxton as well as Barry Island, as well as currently, 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, as well as home 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 Highlight Park right through the Vale to Bridgend was the B4265, as beyond Cardiff International Airport it still is. Since 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 company that assisted over 200 steam engines make it through into preservation. 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 also the adjoining enterprise zone form the biggest employment centre in the town. The anchors, whose road web links were dramatically improved with the opening of the Docks Link Road in 1981, now have straight roadway gain access to with the M4 freeway. The anchors can take care of vessels approximately 23,000 tonnes and also the superior tidal placement near the deep-water channel of the Severn Estuary, permits set up sailings. With its transportation sheds, storehouses as well as open storage, the docks are furnished to manage mass cargoes but with the scrapping of their former electrical cranes, ships' own derricks need to be used or cranes employed in by ABP as required. 2 roll on/roll off berths are offered and have been made use of by routes to Ireland as well as West Africa. As at January 2016, Intermodal raifreight traffic is being operated from No. 2 Dock. With a brand-new existence on the Mole in No. 1 Dock and also the stipulation of a concrete slipway from it, recreation rowing and rowboat sailing is offered (2016 ). The majority of industrial companies lie in the dock area. The largest are the chemical creating worries such as Cabot Carbon and also Dow Corning who recently completed the advancement of the largest silicones plant in Europe. Other major companies in Barry Docks are Jewson Builders' Merchants, Western Welding and also Design, Bumnelly, and Associated British Ports Holdings who, given that 1982 have actually run the anchors as successors to the British Transport Docks Board. To the west of Barry is Porthkerry Park. This is a big area of open space, with woodlands, streams, and accessibility to a pebbly coastline. In the park is the former Barry Railway Company viaduct with 13 arched periods standing 110 feet high. Adhering to the closure of the Vale of Glamorgan line to passengers in 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, provides a panorama and also link to Llantwit Major and beyond to Bridgend.