Barry Power Station

Barry Power Station was a 230 MWe gas-fired power station on Sully Moors Road in Sully in the Vale of Glamorgan, Wales. It was eight miles west of Cardiff and was situated next to a large Ineos Vinyls chemicals works that makes PVC and a Hexion Chemicals plant.

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Type: Brownfield land
Description: power station in the Vale of Glamorgan, Wales, UK
Also known as: “Centrica Barry”

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Cadoxton railway station and St Cadoc’s Church, Cadoxton.

Cadoxton railway station

Railway station

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Cadoxton railway station is a railway station serving Cadoxton and Palmerstown near Barry, Vale of Glamorgan, South Wales. It is located on the Barry Branch 6½ miles south of Cardiff Central. Cadoxton railway station is situated 1 mile west of Barry Power Station.

St Cadoc’s Church, Cadoxton

Church

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St Cadoc’s Church, Cadoxton is situated 1 mile northwest of Barry Power Station.

St Richard Gwyn Catholic High School, Barry

School

St Richard Gwyn Catholic High School is a Roman Catholic comprehensive secondary school in Vale of Glamorgan, Wales. It is named after the Welsh martyr St. St Richard Gwyn Catholic High School, Barry is situated 1 mile northwest of Barry Power Station.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Palmerstown and Cadoxton.

Palmerstown

Suburb

Palmerstown is a south-eastern suburb of Barry in the Vale of Glamorgan south-west of Dinas Powys and 7 miles south-west of Cardiff in Wales. It is immediately north of chemical and plastics industries such as Dow Chemicals, and Barry No.2 dock and the Atlantic Trading Estate lie south-east of No.2 dock.

Cadoxton

Suburb

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Cadoxton is a district of Barry in the Vale of Glamorgan, Wales. Cadoxton was once originally its own village, separate from Barry. It grew up around Saint Cadoc's parish church, which survives.