Fairbourne
Fairbourne is a Welsh seaside village. 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 is in an area listed by Gwynedd council for taken care of retreat due to increasing sea levels. The area where Fairbourne currently is became part of the historic area of Merioneth, as well as was composed primarily of salt marshes as well as slightly higher grazing lands. Before advancement started in the mid 19th Century there were 3 ranches on the land. Prior to the seaside resort was built, the seaside area was referred to as Morfa Henddol, while the headland outcrop currently occupied by the Fairbourne Hotel was called Ynysfaig. Regarding 1865 Solomon Andrews, a Welsh business owner, acquired the headland. Over the following several years he developed a seawall for tidal protection and also numerous homes. To promote this he built a horse-drawn tramway from the railway to the site in order to generate building products, it was transformed to a steam railway in 1916. Sir Arthur McDougall (of flour making fame) had actually been looking for a country estate, yet when he found this location, he quickly conceived of it as a seaside resort. In July 1895 Arthur McDougall bought a considerable acreage from land speculators, which he enlarged by extra great deals the following year. He employed a building contractor in 1896 who started the growth of a design seaside resort. Abnormally for Gwynedd area, the village has no main Welsh-language name. Unlike the majority 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.