Fairbourne is a Welsh seaside village. It lies on the coastline of Barmouth Bay in Arthog community, to the south of the estuary of the River Mawddach in Gwynedd, surrounded by the Snowdonia National Park. It remains in an area detailed by Gwynedd council for taken care of hideaway because of climbing water level. The location where Fairbourne now is became part of the historical region of Merioneth, and consisted largely of salt marshes and also somewhat higher grazing lands. Before growth began in the mid 19th Century there were three farms on the land. Before the seaside resort was built, the coastal location was known as Morfa Henddol, while the headland outcrop currently occupied by the Fairbourne Hotel was called Ynysfaig. About 1865 Solomon Andrews, a Welsh business owner, acquired the promontory. Over the following several years he developed a seawall for tidal security and also numerous homes. To facilitate this he constructed a horse-drawn tramway from the railroad to the site in order to generate building materials, it was transformed to a steam railway in 1916. Sir Arthur McDougall (of flour making popularity) had actually been searching for a nation estate, but when he discovered this location, he soon visualized it as a seaside resort. In July 1895 Arthur McDougall purchased a considerable acreage from land speculators, which he enlarged by extra lots the following year. He hired a building contractor in 1896 that began the growth of a model seaside resort. Unusually 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 most of its inhabitants coming from or descended from those who originated from England.
