A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
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A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
BARRY, a village, an island, and a parish in Cardiff district, Glamorgan. The village stands on the coast opposite the island, 9 miles SE of Cowbridge; is a sub-port to Cardiff; and has acquired importance by a harbour act of 1866, and by acts of 1865-6 for railways to the South Wales line at Peterston, to Sully, and to Penarth-The island comprises about 300 acres; and is separated from the mainland only by a narrow channel, passable for carriages at low water.—The parish contains 570 acres of land and 265 of water; and its Post Town is Barry under Cardiff. Real property, £634. Pop., 87. Houses, 13. The property is divided among a few. There are ruins of an ancient castle and an ancient chapel. The living is a rectory, annexed to the rectory of Porthkerry, in the diocese of Llandaff. The church is good.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a village, an island, and a parish" (ADL Feature Type: "populated places") |
| Administrative units: | Barry CP/AP Cardiff RegD/PLU Glamorgan AncC |
| Place: | Y Barri |
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