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Barry Island (Welsh: Ynys y Barri) is a district, peninsula and seaside resort, forming part of the town of Barry in the Vale of Glamorgan, South Wales. It is named after the 6th century Saint Baruc .
Barry Island Pleasure Park has been serving up screams and ice creams since 1897 (Visit Wales) There have been thrills, entertainment and sticks of candy floss at Barry Island Pleasure Park since ...
Barry (/ ˈ b ær i /; [2] [3] Welsh: Y Barri; pronounced [ə ˈbari]) [citation needed] is a town and community in the Vale of Glamorgan, Wales.It is on the north coast of the Bristol Channel approximately 9 miles (14 km) south-southwest of Cardiff.
Barry Island (Welsh: Ynys y Barri) is a small seaside resort in the Bristol Channel (Môr Hafren) about 9 miles (14 km) south by south west of Cardiff, (Welsh: Caerdydd), south Wales. Until 1896, when a rail link was completed from the mainland, the only access to Barry Island was either by foot across the sand and mud at low tide, or, when the ...
This is a route-map template for the Barry Railway Company, a Welsh railway line and/or company.. For a key to symbols, see {{railway line legend}}.; For information on using this template, see Template:Routemap.
Romilly is a western district of Barry in the Vale of Glamorgan, South Wales, United Kingdom. The area has an attractive public park which includes an extensive field and tennis court facilities. It is located around the corner from Cold Knap. An educational centre was built on Romilly Road in 1957. [1]
Cold Knap Point is the site of a sewage pumping station serving Barry. [6] It was also the location of a case in English contract law - Chapelton v. Barry UDC [1940] 1 KB 532 - where a man's deckchair collapsed. The park is listed at Grade II on the Cadw/ICOMOS Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in Wales. [7]
In the past, however, it did flow through the centre of Barry. At high tide, small boats could sail up into Barry. Originally it met the sea at the eastern edge of Barry Island, where the present dock entrance is situated today. [3] Barry Island ceased to be an island when the river was diverted away and the docks constructed.