Penarth (Welsh: pen head, + garth cliff or hill, or arth bear) is a town in the Vale of Glamorgan, Wales, lying on the Bristol Channel and Cardiff Bay. The town lies at the southern end of the Cardiff Barrage, which it is possible to walk across (though access for pedestrians through the dockyards on the east end of the barrage is restricted). The title of the town is commonly misinterpreted to mean 'Bear's Head', the second part of the town's name proving problematic to translate for some, when in fact it means 'Clifftops', gaining its name from the cliffs running along the town's seafront.