This large town in south Wales sits between Cardiff and Cardiff Airport, making for a seaside location with good transport links.
Why Choose Serviced Apartments in Barry?
Our serviced apartments in Barry offer a real home-from-home while you are travelling for business. All our properties have spacious living and dining areas and modern self-catering facilities. Smart TVs and super-fast broadband are standard. Perfectly placed between the business district and the town’s new waterfront area, these serviced apartments in Barry are within walking distance of all amenities and attractions. The sunny waterfront boasts a host of new restaurants, bars, and cafés.
Where is Barry?
Barry is a town located on the southern tip of South Wales in the Vale of Glamorgan. It is on the north coast of the Bristol Channel, and just nine miles from the Welsh capital of Cardiff. Barry is the largest town in Wales and the Council HQ for the Vale of Glamorgan. The Vale has a population of around 120,000 - more than 40% of whom are resident in Barry itself.
The town can be accessed by car off junction 33 on the M4. This is a 20-minute drive, with the M4 itself less than 10 miles north of the centre of the town. Cardiff is ten miles and twenty-six minutes away via the A4055S. Swansea is forty-three miles away and a fifty-three minute drive. London is one hundred and sixty-five miles from Barry via the M4
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Barry was once a heavy industrial area for coal. The town is now turning to renewables, with six solar farms currently located here and Associated British Ports developing another in the Barry Docks area. Major employers in the town include Aston Martin, Cabot Carbon, Lignia, Goodwash, and Dow Silicones UK. Others are Zeon, Dunn Brothers, Scott Timber, Jewson’s, Rank Hovis, and Associated British Ports.
Trading estates near Barry include the eighty-seven-acre former military depot and now Atlantic Trading Estate, as well as the Ty Verlon Industrial Estate, and Palmerston.
A waterfront regeneration programme is currently underway, with commercial and residential land available. Formerly owned by Associated British Ports, many point to it as the key to the town’s future prosperity. Called the Innovation Quarter, this is a joint regeneration venture between the Vale of Glamorgan Council and the Welsh Government.
A former Victorian railway building has already been transformed into an entertainment and business complex here, at a cost of £2.9 million.
Things to Do in Barry
Barry may be vibrant, but there are plenty of more tranquil places too. Porthkerry Country Park is one of these. It has mini-golf, plenty of wildlife, and an impressive café, as well as 200 acres of woodland and meadows to explore. There’s also the Barry Railway Company viaduct with its thirteen huge arches, each standing 110 ft high, that runs right through the park.
The Innovation Quarter is a great dining destination, while there are also plenty of independent shops to mill around in. There’s no shortage of beaches in Barry. The pebbly but quiet Knap and Whitmore Bay on Barry Island are two of the more popular.
Theatre lovers should pay a visit to The Small Space on Island Road. This venue currently boasts the title of Britain's smallest theatre and cinema.
The Welsh Hawking Centre and Children's Animal Park is also worth a visit. At Weycock Road on the north-west outskirts of the town, it has the biggest collection of birds of prey in the country. There are more than 200 birds, including eagles, falcons, owls, hawks, and buzzards.
Whatever you choose to do, select a Situ serviced apartment in Barry and make the most of your time here.
Cardiff International Airport is less than five miles (and a fourteen-minute bus journey) from Barry town centre.
Bristol Airport is two hours and nineteen minutes by train and bus. London Heathrow is just over three hours by train, as is Southampton Airport, going via Reading.
There are four train stations across town. These are Cadoxton, Barry Dock, Barry, and Barry Island. Cardiff is only twenty minutes away by train (with four trains during peak hours). Swansea is one hour and twenty-two minutes away, and it takes two hours to get to London.
Barry has no bus station but plenty of bus stops. Buses run regularly to Cardiff (services 95 and 96A), taking just under one hour. A bus to Bristol is two hours, thirty-three minutes, while London is five hours and twenty-nine minutes away.
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