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Barry (Welsh:
Y Barri) is a town in the Vale
of Glamorgan, Wales.
Located just a few miles from Cardiff,
the capital of Wales,
Barry lies on the south coast and is a popular
seaside resort, with attractions including a beach,
a lido and the funfairs of Barry Island.
Barry is currently home to roughly 47,000 people.
It is the administrative centre of the Vale of
Glamorgan, and home to Barry Town F.C.
Originally Barry was a small
village neighbouring the larger villages of Cadoxton
and Barry Island. Today, Barry has swallowed both
of these villages and the area is know as Barry
with small areas or parishes known as Cadoxton
and Barry Island.
The town was originally a fishing port,
and grew when it was developed as a coal port
in the 1880s. The coal trade was growing faster
than the facilities at Cardiff Docks ever could
and so a group of colliery owners formed the Barry
Railway Company and chose to build the dock at
Barry. Work commenced in 1884 and the first dock
basin was opened in 1889 to be followed by two
other docks and extensive port installations.
The Barry Railway brought coal down from the valleys
to the new docks whose trade grew from one million
tons in the first year to over nine million tons
by 1903. The port was crowded with ships and had
flourishing ship repair yards, cold stores, flour
mills and an ice factory. By 1913, Barry was the
largest coal exporting port in the world.
Behind the docks rose the terraced
houses of Barry which, with Cadoxton. soon formed
a sizeable town. The railways which had played
a major part in the development of the dock did
a great deal, too, to make Barry Island a popular
resort.
Although still a port, Barry
is more important now as a manufacturing town
and as a service centre for the Vale of Glamorgan.
Barry Docks and the adjoining industrial area
form the largest employment centre in the town.
The docks, whose road links were dramatically
improved with the opening of the Docks Link Road
in 1981, now have direct road access with the
M4 motorway. The docks can handle vessels up to
23,000 tons and the first-class tidal position
close to the deep-water channel of the Severn
Estuary, allows for regular scheduled sailings.
With its extensive transit sheds, warehouses and
open storage, the docks are well equipped to handle
hulk cargoes for which the batteries of high capacity
grab cranes are invaluable. Two roll on/roll off
berths are available and have been extensively
used by routes to Eire and West Africa. These
and the other port facilities have seen an increasing
variety of traffic in recent years.
The great majority of industrial firms
are located in the dock area. By far the largest
are the chemical producing concerns such as Cabot
Carbon and Dow Corning who have just completed
the development of the largest silicones plant
in Europe. Other main employers in Barry Docks
are Jewson Builders' Merchants, Western Welding
and Engineering, Rank Hovis and, of course, Associated
British Ports who, since 1982 have run the docks
as successors of the British Transport Docks Board.
The name of Barry derives from
St. Baruc who was drowned in
the Bristol Channel and buried in Barry Island.
Cadoxton, too, takes its name from an early saint,
St. Cadoc, and it is around the Medieval church
of St. Cadoc that the old village grew up. The
church still survives, as do some of the older
village houses.
About Wales
Wales is a Celtic country and
one of the four constituent parts of the United
Kingdom (along with England, Scotland, and Northern
Ireland). Wales is located in the south-west of
Great Britain, and is bordered by England to the
east, the Bristol Channel to the south, St George's
Channel in the west, and the Irish Sea to the
north.
The main population and industrial areas are
in South Wales, consisting of the cities of Cardiff,
Swansea and Newport
and surrounding areas.
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