Fairbourne is a Welsh beachfront village. It lies on the coastline of Barmouth Bay in Arthog community, to the south of the estuary of the River Mawddach in Gwynedd, bordered by the Snowdonia National Park. It is in an area noted by Gwynedd council for handled resort because of rising water level. The area where Fairbourne currently is belonged to the historic area of Merioneth, and also consisted mainly of salt marshes and slightly greater grazing lands. Before growth began in the mid 19th Century there were 3 farms on the land. Prior to the seaside resort was constructed, the coastal area was referred to as Morfa Henddol, while the promontory outcrop now occupied by the Fairbourne Hotel was called Ynysfaig. Regarding 1865 Solomon Andrews, a Welsh business owner, bought the promontory. Over the next several years he built a seawall for tidal protection as well as several homes. To promote this he constructed a horse-drawn tramway from the railway to the website in order to generate structure materials, it was converted to a steam railway in 1916. Sir Arthur McDougall (of flour making popularity) had actually been seeking a country estate, but when he uncovered this area, he quickly visualized it as a seaside resort. In July 1895 Arthur McDougall acquired a considerable acreage from land speculators, which he bigger by extra lots the following year. He worked with a contractor in 1896 that started the growth of a design seaside resort. Unusually for Gwynedd region, the village has no official Welsh-language name. Unlike a lot of Gwynedd, where Welsh is the bulk language, English is the predominate language in Fairbourne with the majority of its inhabitants coming from or came down from those who originated from England.