Barry
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.
- 01Barry 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 - 02Jenner 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 - 03Dovecote 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 - 04Goldsland
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 - 05Lidmore
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 - 06Barry 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 - 07Porthkerry 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 - 08Barry 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 - 09The 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 - 10Barry 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
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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 → Barry219 km · quickest by road, 4h 14m · £24–32
- Birmingham, West Midlands → Barry153 km · quickest by road, 3h 8m · £17–23
- Nottingham, Leicestershire → Barry226 km · quickest by road, 4h 14m · £25–33
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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.
- Go nextIt is possible to visit Hereford as a day trip, using either train or car.
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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