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Test your knowledge of our town with these questions and scroll to find the answers below. Let us know how you score!

1. Which Sixth-century Welsh saint was buried on Barry Island?
2. What is the name of the oldest existing inhabited house in modern Barry?
3. Who does Barry Memorial Hall honour in its name?
4. How many arches are there on the Porthkerry Viaduct?
5. What year does Barry Town Football Club date back to?
6. True or false? Barry Town Council is the largest town council in Wales?
7. What is the nickname of the Barry-born Olympic swimmer David Davies?
8. Which of the following is NOT someone Nessa claims to have connections with on in Gavin and Stacey?

A) Dodi Al-Fayed B) Noel Edmunds C) John Prescott

1. What year did Butlins on Barry Island close?
2. What year did Barry Docks become the largest port in the world for coal exports?

Answers:

1. Saint Barruc – our town is rumoured to be named after him
2. Whitehouse Cottage – dating back to the late 1500s, it overlooks the sea at Cold Knap
3. The fallen soliders of World War One
4. 13 – the viaduct stands at 110 feet
5. 1892 – when an association team was formed called Barry and Cadoxton District
6. True
7. Dai Splash
8. B) Noel Edmunds, although she and Smithy do inadvertently name their son Neil after him
9. 1996
10. 1913 – Barry Docks beat the previous record holder Cardiff by shipping 11.05 million long tons