Barry Island
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Barry Island (Welsh: Ynys y Barri) is a peninsula forming part of the town of Barry in the Vale of Glamorgan, Wales.
The peninsula was an island until the 1880s when it was linked to the mainland as the town of Barry was developed. Barry Island is now known for its beach and for its funfair attractions.
The island used to house a Butlins Holiday camp, which was used as for filming scenes in the "Shangri-La" holiday camp from the Doctor Who serial Delta and the Bannermen. The camp has since been dismantled, but the island was once again used for location shooting in the 2005 series epiosdes The Empty Child and The Doctor Dances, standing in for a bomb site in 1941 London.