Barry, Vale of Glamorgan

Barry is a coastal town and community in the Vale of Glamorgan, Wales, on the north coast of the Bristol Channel about 9 miles south-south-west of Cardiff. It is a seaside resort with several beaches and the revived Barry Island Pleasure Park. The town absorbed the larger neighbouring villages of Cadoxton and Barry Island, and it grew significantly from the 1880s with the development of Barry Docks, which in 1913 formed the largest coal port in the world. Barry Island was an island separated from the mainland by a tidal estuary until the 1880s, when the opening of Barry Dock by the Barry Railway Company, established by David Davies, linked it to the mainland. The 2021 census recorded a population of 56,605.