Barry Island - South Wales - 4K Virtual Walk - September 2020

In this video we take a full tour of Barry Island seafront. Our walk starts on the coast path near the Barry Island National Coastwatch Institution with views of Whitmore Bay. We walk along the promenade past the brightly coloured Barry Island Beach Huts and the Barry Island Climbing Wall.
Then we fully explore all the delights that Barry Island has to offer. See the Barry Island Pleasure Park, Whitmore + Jackson, RNLI Barry Island, Smugglers Cove Mini Golf, Barry Island Quasar, Stardust, Coastal Coffee, Dimes Amusements, Caesars Palace Amusements, Fun Harbour Amusements, Marco's Cafe, O'Shea's Fish & Chip Cafe, Boofy's Fish & Chips, Island Leisure Amusement Centre, Zio's Gelateria and of course the Gavin & Stacey photo wall.

Hope you enjoy the tour!

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Barry Island is a district, peninsula and seaside resort, forming part of the town of Barry in the Vale of Glamorgan, South Wales. Barry's stretch of coast, on the Bristol Channel, has the world's second highest tidal range of 15 metres (49 ft), second only to Bay of Fundy in Eastern Canada.

The peninsula was an island until the 1880s when it was linked to the mainland as the town of Barry expanded. This was partly due to the opening of Barry Docks by the Barry Railway Company. Established by David Davies, the docks now link up the gap which used to isolate Barry Island. Until 1896, when a rail link with the mainland via a 250-yard long causeway was completed, the only access to Barry Island had been either on foot across the sand and mud at low tide, or when the tide was in, by ferry from the shore at the Old Harbour. In 1896 the railway line was extended along the newly built raised road causeway from Barry Station onto the island to provide a service to the newly opened and developing Barry Island Pleasure Park day tripper leisure facilities.

The recently refurbished seafront now offers a sweeping promenade along the entire length of Whitmore Bay beach, against a backdrop of enticing cafés and restaurants. Barry Island has 24 vibrantly coloured beach huts with excellent views across Whitmore Bay.

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. The Pleasure Park features over 17 fairground rides and attractions, ranging from simple children’s amusements to much more extreme rides. Entry to the park is free and tokens can be purchased for the rides.

Although Barry Island used to be home to a Butlins Holiday Camp, it is now known more for its beach and Barry Island Pleasure Park. It was used as a setting of the BBC TV show Gavin & Stacey.

Gavin & Stacey is a British comedy television show, written by James Corden and Ruth Jones. The series follows the romance between Gavin, from Billericay, Essex, and Stacey, from Barry, South Wales. Three series totalling twenty episodes were broadcast from 13 May 2007 to 1 January 2010 on BBC Three and later on BBC One. Broadcast on Christmas Day 2009 and New Year's Day 2010, episodes of the final series formed a significant part of the prime-time BBC seasonal programming. James Corden and Ruth Jones wrote a Christmas Day 2019 special for BBC One. With 18.49 million viewers, the broadcast in the United Kingdom was the most-viewed non-sporting event in a decade and the most-watched comedy in 17 years.

Butlins Barry Island was a holiday camp that opened in 1966 and closed in 1996, by which time it had been known as The Barry Island Resort for about nine years.

The holiday camp was used to film scenes in the "Shangri-La" holiday camp in the Doctor Who serial Delta and the Bannermen. The island was also a location for Doctor Who in the 2005 series episodes "The Empty Child" and "The Doctor Dances", standing in for a bomb site in 1941 London and the 2014 series episode "Flatline".

The third, fourth and fifth series of the BBC supernatural drama Being Human were set and filmed in Barry.

The ashes of Fred West, British serial killer, were scattered on Barry Island after his body had been cremated on 29 March 1995.

On 25 July 2008, Radio 1 featured Barry Island in one of their summer events, broadcasting a special edition of The Scott Mills Show live from the island.

In 2012 the Wales Coast Path opened, containing a minor detour in which the path loops around Barry Island before continuing on westwards towards Llantwit Major.

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