Cold Knap
Cold Knap | |
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District of Barry | |
Cold Knap lake
Cold Knap lake
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Location in Barry | |
Location in the Vale of Glamorgan | |
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Country | United Kingdom |
Region | Wales |
County | Vale of Glamorgan |
Town | Barry |
Time zone | GMT (UTC+0) |
Cold Knap is a district of Barry in South Wales.
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Cold Knap is a coastal pebble beach, approximately a mile west of the sandy beach at Barry Island, which attracts visitors during the summer months. It was founded by the Romans who used it as a port.
Attractions include a lake shaped like a Welsh harp and a skate park. 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).[1]
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.
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.
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