Cold Knap | |
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District of Barry | |
 Cold Knap lake | |
  Cold Knap Location in Barry | |
| Coordinates: 51°23′14″N 3°17′25″W / 51.38722°N 3.29028°W | |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Region | Wales |
| County | Vale of Glamorgan |
| Town | Barry |
| Time zone | UTC+0 (GMT) |
Cold Knap is a district of Barry in South Wales.
Amenities
[edit]Cold Knap is a coastal pebble beach (with some sand at low tide),[1] approximately a mile west of the sandy beach at Barry Island, which attracts visitors during the summer months. It extends generally westwards towards Porthkerry from Cold Knap Point.[2] It was founded by the Romans who used it as a port, and the remains of a Roman building here are now a scheduled monument.[3]
Attractions include a lake shaped like a Welsh harp and the Richard Taylor Memorial Skatepark.[4] There was previously an outdoor swimming pool, but this has now been closed and filled in, and the area turned into a tourist trail. There was a campaign to have the lido rebuilt during 2014 but an enthusiastic online campaign (including a Facebook campaign group ("Rebuild the Knap Lido") has not been successful, despite a number of celebrity endorsements (including local BBC weatherman Derek Brockway).[5]
Cold Knap Lake is the title and subject of a poem by Gillian Clarke, which has been included in an English literature GCSE syllabus in England. Cold Knap Point is the site of a sewage pumping station serving Barry.[6] It was also the location of a case in English contract law - Chapelton v. Barry UDC [1940] 1 KB 532 - where a man's deckchair collapsed.
The park is listed at Grade II on the Cadw/ICOMOS Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in Wales.[7]
References
[edit]- ^ Cold Knap beach at beachguide.wales Accessed 27 June 2017
- ^ Map showing Cold Knap beach at streetmap.co.uk Accessed 27 June 2017
- ^ 'Roman building remains, Cold Knap, Barry' at historypoints.org Accessed 27 June 2017
- ^ "Barry's Richard Taylor Memorial Skatepark opens this weekend / Barry And District News". Retrieved 3 March 2024.
- ^ Sharon Harris: 'Weatherman pools support for Lido campaign', 6 August 2014, at barryanddistrictnews.co.uk Accessed 27 June 2017
- ^ See file: '3 The Knap to Watch House Beach.pdf', including "...a strategically important sewage pumping station that serves Barry", at www.southwalescoast.org Accessed 27 June 2017
- ^ Cadw. "Cold Knap Park (PGW(Gm)58(GLA))". National Historic Assets of Wales. Retrieved 6 February 2023.