[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.

[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.