Fairbourne
Fairbourne is a Welsh beach town. It lies on the coast of Barmouth Bay in Arthog neighborhood, to the south of the tidewater of the River Mawddach in Gwynedd, surrounded by the Snowdonia National Park. It remains in a location noted by Gwynedd council for handled retreat due to increasing water level. The area where Fairbourne now is became part of the historic area of Merioneth, and was composed mainly of salt marshes and a little greater grazing lands. Prior to advancement began in the mid 19th Century there were three farms on the land. Prior to the seaside resort was developed, the seaside area was called Morfa Henddol, while the promontory outcrop currently occupied by the Fairbourne Resort was called Ynysfaig. About 1865 Solomon Andrews, a Welsh entrepreneur, purchased the headland. Over the following several years he constructed a seawall for tidal protection and a number of houses. To facilitate this he developed a horse-drawn tramway from the railroad to the website in order to generate structure materials, it was transformed to a steam railway in 1916. Sir Arthur McDougall (of flour making fame) had been searching for a nation estate, but when he discovered this location, he quickly visualized it as a seaside resort. In July 1895 Arthur McDougall bought a significant acreage from land speculators, which he bigger by additional whole lots the list below year. He hired a building contractor in 1896 who began the advancement of a version seaside resort. Uncommonly for Gwynedd area, the town has no official Welsh-language name. Unlike a lot of Gwynedd, where Welsh is the majority language, English is the predominate language in Fairbourne with a lot of its citizens originating from or descended from those who originated from England.
