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Worth seeing in and around Barry

10 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    Barry Castle

    Barry Castle is a small Grade II* listed ruined two-storey gatehouse with the adjacent walls of a hall in the Romilly district of Barry, Vale of Glamorgan in south Wales.

    800 m · castle in the UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Jenner Park Stadium

    Jenner Park is the premier sports stadium in Barry, Vale of Glamorgan, Wales and traditional home of football club, Barry Town United.

    1.8 km · Stadium in Wales · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Dovecote At Cadoxton Court, Mount Pleasant, Cadoxton

    Cadoxton Court Dovecote is a medieval structure in Cadoxton, in the Vale of Glamorgan, south Wales. Dating from the 13th century, it is the largest of the remaining medieval dovecotes in the Vale and a Grade I listed building.

    2.4 km · Grade I listed building in Vale of Glamorgan · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Goldsland

    Goldsland is a small hamlet and farm in the Vale of Glamorgan in south Wales. It is located near the boundary of the Wenvoe Castle Golf Club in the parish of Wenvoe.

    3.8 km · cave in United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Lidmore

    Lidmore or Lydmore is a small hamlet and farm in the Vale of Glamorgan. It is located just off the A4226 road, to the northwest of Highlight Park in Barry, Vale of Glamorgan and in close proximity to Brynhill Golf Club.

    3.2 km · Grade II listed building in Vale of Glamorgan · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Barry Island Pleasure Park

    Barry Island Pleasure Park is an amusement park situated on the coast at Barry Island in the Vale of Glamorgan, about 10 miles south west of the capital city Cardiff, Wales. The park opens annually at weekends from Easter onwards and daily during the school summer holidays, until the first weekend in September.

    1.1 km · Amusement park in Glamorgan, Wales · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Porthkerry Viaduct

    Porthkerry Viaduct is a railway viaduct near Barry in the Vale of Glamorgan, Wales. The viaduct was designed and engineered by James Szlumper and William Szlumper, and was contracted to the Pethick Brothers to be built in the late nineteenth century in order to carry the Vale of Glamorgan Railway between Tondu via Coity Junction Bridgend and Barry Docks.

    2.5 km · grade II listed bridge in the United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Barry Lighthouse

    Barry Docks is a port facility in the town of Barry, Vale of Glamorgan, Wales, a few miles southwest of Cardiff on the north shore of the Bristol Channel. The docks were opened in 1889 by David Davies and John Cory as an alternative to the congested and expensive Cardiff Docks to ship coal carried by rail from the South Wales Coalfield.

    2 km · lighthouse in Barry, Vale of Glamorgan, Wales · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    The Old Rectory

    The Old Rectory is an early building in St Andrews Major, Vale of Glamorgan, Wales, which was originally the house for the rectors of St Andrews Church.

    4.9 km · historic building in Dinas Powys, Vale of Glamorgan, Wales · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    Barry Council Office and Library

    Barry Council Office and Library is a local government building and public library located in King Square, Barry, Wales. The building, which was once the meeting place of Barry Municipal Borough Council, is a Grade II listed building.

    1.4 km · public library and town hall in Barry, Vale of Glamorgan · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Getting to Barry

Airports
Cardiff (CWL), 4 km · Bristol (BRS), 39 km · Birmingham (BHX), 158 km
Stations
Cardiff Airport, 4.1 km · Rhoose Cardiff International Airport railway station, 4.7 km · Cadoxton railway station, 2.8 km · Barry Docks railway station, 1.6 km · Barry Island railway station, 1.1 km
  • London → Barry
    219 km · quickest by road, 4h 14m · £24–32
  • Birmingham, West Midlands → Barry
    153 km · quickest by road, 3h 8m · £17–23
  • Nottingham, Leicestershire → Barry
    226 km · quickest by road, 4h 14m · £25–33
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Barry

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Barry. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Go nextIt is possible to visit Hereford as a day trip, using either train or car.

From Wikivoyage: Cardiff, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    100 km
  2. 02
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    159 km
  3. 03
    Inis Mór (Inishmore)IE

    8 ways of moving, 20 sources

    478 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    480 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    516 km

If you know how people move in Barry – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Barry

Barry is 11 km from Cardiff, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Rhoosevillage and community in Vale of Glamorgan, Wales4.9 km
  • Wenvoevillage and community in the Vale of Glamorgan, Wales, UK5.7 km
  • Sullyvillage in the community of Sully and Lavernock, Vale of Glamorgan, Wales5.2 km
  • St Andrews Majorvillage in the Vale of Glamorgan, Wales5 km
  • Sully and Lavernockcommunity in the Vale of Glamorgan, Wales, UK5.6 km
  • Moultonhamlet in Vale of Glamorgan, United Kingdom4.3 km