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标题: CHEAP STONE ISLAND. ANGUS AND JULIA STONE MYSPACE. WHITE STONE Home
CHEAP STONE ISLAND. ANGUS AND JULIA STONE MYSPACE. WHITE STONE House

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From Wikipedia;

Barry Island (Welsh: Ynys y Barri) is a district, peninsula and seaside resort, forming part of the city of Barry in the Vale of Glamorgan, South Wales. It's named after the 6th century Saint Baruc. Barry’s stretch of coast, on the Bristol Channel, has the world’s second highest tidal range of 15 metres (49 ft),[1] second only to Bay of Fundy in Eastern Canada.


The peninsula was an island till the 1880s when it was linked to the mainland because the town of Barry expanded. This was partly due to the opening of Barry Dock by the Barry Railway Firm. Established by David Davies, the docks now link up the hole which used to type Barry Island.


Although Barry Island used to be house to a Butlins Holiday Camp, it's now identified more for its seashore and Barry Island Pleasure Park.


The area’s railway station serves as one of the termini on the Vale of Glamorgan Line and connects to Cardiff, about 9 miles (14 km) north north east of Barry, in 33 minutes.


Prehistoric Origins

The realm round Barry Island reveals intensive evidence of trendy human occupation. Mesolithic or Middle Stone Age microlith flint instruments have been discovered at Friars Point on Barry Island and close to Wenvoe, and Neolithic or New Stone Age polished stone axe-heads have been discovered in St. Andrews Major. As the world was heavily wooded and motion would have been restricted, it is probably going that individuals additionally got here to what was to turn out to be Wales by boat, apparently from the Iberian Peninsula. They cleared the forests to establish pasture and to cultivate the land. These neolithic colonists, who integrated with the indigenous folks, progressively changed from being hunter-gatherers to settled farmers. They constructed the lengthy barrows at St Lythans and Tinkinswood, which date to around 6,000 BP, only 3 miles (4.Eight km) and four miles (6.4 km) to the north of Barry Island, respectively.


New cultures

In frequent with the individuals dwelling all over Great Britain, over the next centuries the native population assimilated immigrants and exchanged concepts of the Bronze Age and Iron Age Celtic cultures. Together with a lot of South Wales, Barry Island was settled by a Celtic British tribe called the Silures. There have been 5 Bronze Age burial mounds, or cairns, recorded on Friars Point.


Although the Roman occupation left no bodily impression on Barry Island, there have been Romano-British settlements nearby in Barry and Llandough. These people embraced the Roman religion of Christianity and dedicated a chapel to St Baruc, a disciple of St Cadoc. Having forgotten to deliver St Cadoc’s studying matter with him, on a journey from the island of Flat Holm, St Baruc was sent back and he drowned in the Bristol Channel on the return journey. He was buried on Barry Island and the ruins of the chapel that was devoted to him can still be seen in Friars Street. His feast day is on 27 September.


The Vikings launched raids in the area and Barry Island was known to be a raider base in 1087.

The Norman/Welsh chronicler Gerallt Gymro (c.1146 - c.1223) described the origin of his family identify in his ‘The Itinerary of Archbishop Baldwin by means of Wales’ (also referred to as ‘The Journey by Wales’). Gerallt Gymro, often known as French: Gerald de Barri, Latin: Giraldus Cambrensis and English: Gerald of Wales, wrote "Not removed from Caerdyf (sic) is a small island situated close to the shore of the Severn, called Barri, from St. Baroc, who formerly lived there, and whose stays are deposited in a chapel overgrown with ivy, having been transferred to a coffin. From therefore a noble household, of the maritime components of South Wales, who owned this island and the adjoining estates, acquired the title of de Barri." Going on to describe the island’s properly, he wrote: "It's outstanding that, in a rock near the entrance of the island, there is a small cavity, to which, if the ear is applied, a noise is heard like that of smiths at work, the blowing of bellows, strokes of hammers, grinding of instruments, and roaring of furnaces ; and it'd simply be imagined that such noises, that are continued on the ebb and circulation of the tides, have been occasioned by the inflow of the sea beneath the cavities of the rocks." The 1908 Everyman edition comprises a brief description of Barry Island by the Benedictine monk Hugh Paulinus de Cressy (c.1605-1674): "Barri Island is situated on the coast of Glamorganshire; and, in response to Cressy, took its name from St. Baruc, the hermit, who resided, and was buried there. The Barrys in Ireland, as nicely as the household of Giraldus, who were lords of it, are said to have derived their names from this island. John Leland, in talking of this island, says, ‘The passage into Barrey isle at ful se is a flite shot over, as much as the Tamise is above the bridge. At low water, there is a broken causey to go over, or els over the shalow streamelet of Barrey-brook on the sands.




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