Fairbourne
Fairbourne is a Welsh beach village. It lies on the coast of Barmouth Bay in Arthog neighborhood, 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 resort due to rising water level. The area where Fairbourne now is became part of the historic area of Merioneth, and also consisted mainly of salt marshes as well as slightly greater grazing lands. Before advancement started in the mid 19th Century there were 3 ranches on the land. Prior to the seaside resort was developed, the seaside location was referred to as Morfa Henddol, while the promontory outcrop now occupied by the Fairbourne Hotel was called Ynysfaig. About 1865 Solomon Andrews, a Welsh business owner, bought the headland. Over the next several years he constructed a seawall for tidal defense and also several houses. To facilitate this he built a horse-drawn tramway from the railway to the site in order to bring in building products, it was converted to a steam railway in 1916. Sir Arthur McDougall (of flour making popularity) had been seeking a nation estate, however when he uncovered this area, he quickly envisaged it as a seaside resort. In July 1895 Arthur McDougall bought a considerable acreage from land speculators, which he enlarged by additional great deals the following year. He worked with a builder in 1896 who began the growth of a version seaside resort. Unusually for Gwynedd region, the town has no main 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 residents originating from or came down from those who originated from England.