Barry High Street

The town of Barry often gets a bad rap for various reasons, but it’s not without its charms. I think one of the highlights of this former industrial setting is its quaint high street, packed with a range of shops to suit a variety of tastes and budgets.
Apart from the unusually high number of estate agents, Barry’s main thoroughfare offers a surprising amount of independent businesses, forming a strip of excellent retail therapy opportunities, with shops like Miss Holmes, Gifted, Food for Thought and Jaquies, to name a few.
Spending a day shop hopping in Barry was a delightful change to wandering Cardiff’s uninspiring high streets, which are crammed full of the same chains you’d find in any town in Britain. Yawn.
Parking here is nightmare, however, so I think the best way to visit this area of town is by train, as the main railway station is only a few minutes’ walk away.