Fairbourne
Fairbourne is a Welsh beach town. It lies on the shore of Barmouth Bay in Arthog area, to the south of the tidewater of the River Mawddach in Gwynedd, surrounded by the Snowdonia National Park. It is in an area noted by Gwynedd council for managed resort as a result of rising sea levels. The area where Fairbourne now is belonged to the historical area of Merioneth, and was composed mainly of salt marshes and a little greater grazing lands. Prior to advancement started in the mid 19th Century there were three ranches on the land. Prior to the seaside resort was developed, the seaside area was called Morfa Henddol, while the promontory outcrop currently inhabited by the Fairbourne Hotel was called Ynysfaig. Regarding 1865 Solomon Andrews, a Welsh business owner, purchased the headland. Over the next a number of years he developed a seawall for tidal defense and also several houses. To facilitate this he developed a horse-drawn tramway from the railway to the site in order to generate structure products, it was transformed to a steam railway in 1916. Sir Arthur McDougall (of flour making fame) had been trying to find a nation estate, but when he found this location, he soon envisaged it as a seaside resort. In July 1895 Arthur McDougall purchased a considerable acreage from land speculators, which he bigger by added whole lots the list below year. He employed a home builder in 1896 that began the development of a model seaside resort. Abnormally for Gwynedd region, the town has no official Welsh-language name. Unlike the majority of Gwynedd, where Welsh is the bulk language, English is the predominate language in Fairbourne with the majority of its residents coming from or descended from those who came from England.
