Fairbourne
Fairbourne is a Welsh seaside town. It lies on the coastline of Barmouth Bay in Arthog community, to the south of the tidewater of the River Mawddach in Gwynedd, bordered by the Snowdonia National Park. It remains in an area noted by Gwynedd council for handled hideaway due to rising water level. The location where Fairbourne currently is became part of the historical region of Merioneth, and consisted largely of salt marshes and also a little greater grazing lands. Before growth started in the mid 19th Century there were three farms on the land. Prior to the seaside resort was developed, the coastal location was called Morfa Henddol, while the promontory outcrop now occupied by the Fairbourne Hotel was called Ynysfaig. Regarding 1865 Solomon Andrews, a Welsh entrepreneur, acquired the promontory. Over the next several years he constructed a seawall for tidal security and also several residences. To promote this he built a horse-drawn tramway from the railway to the site in order to generate building materials, it was converted to a steam railway in 1916. Sir Arthur McDougall (of flour making fame) had been searching for a nation estate, however when he uncovered this area, he soon visualized it as a seaside resort. In July 1895 Arthur McDougall purchased a substantial acreage from land speculators, which he enlarged by added whole lots the following year. He employed a builder in 1896 who began the development of a model seaside resort. Uncommonly for Gwynedd county, the village has no official Welsh-language name. Unlike most of Gwynedd, where Welsh is the majority language, English is the predominate language in Fairbourne with the majority of its inhabitants originating from or descended from those who came from England.