Fairbourne
Fairbourne is a Welsh beach town. 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 is in a location provided by Gwynedd council for managed resort due to climbing water level. The area where Fairbourne now is was part of the historic area of Merioneth, and was composed mainly of salt marshes and a little higher grazing lands. Before advancement started in the mid 19th Century there were 3 farms on the land. Before the seaside resort was developed, the seaside 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 next a number of years he constructed a seawall for tidal security and also numerous homes. To facilitate this he built a horse-drawn tramway from the railway to the site in order to bring in structure materials, it was transformed to a steam railway in 1916. Sir Arthur McDougall (of flour making popularity) had actually been seeking a country estate, however when he found this area, he quickly envisaged it as a seaside resort. In July 1895 Arthur McDougall purchased a substantial property from land speculators, which he bigger by additional great deals the list below year. He worked with a building contractor in 1896 that began the growth of a design seaside resort. Uncommonly for Gwynedd county, the village has no main Welsh-language name. Unlike a lot of Gwynedd, where Welsh is the bulk language, English is the predominate language in Fairbourne with a lot of its inhabitants originating from or descended from those that originated from England.
