| Official Name: | Cold Knap |
| Settlement Type: | District of Barry |
| Pushpin Map: | Wales Vale of Glamorgan Barry |
| Pushpin Label Position: | bottom |
| Pushpin Map Caption: | Location in Barry |
| Pushpin Mapsize: | 300 |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Subdivision Name: | United Kingdom |
| Subdivision Type1: | Region |
| Subdivision Name1: | Wales |
| Subdivision Type2: | County |
| Subdivision Name2: | Vale of Glamorgan |
| Subdivision Type3: | Town |
| Subdivision Name3: | Barry |
| Timezone1: | GMT |
| Utc Offset1: | +0 |
| Coordinates: | 51.3872°N -3.2903°W |
Cold Knap is a district of Barry in South Wales.
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.