Bude
Bude is a small seaside resort community in north eastern Cornwall, England, in the civil church of Bude-Stratton and also at the mouth of the River Neet (additionally understood locally as the River Strat). It was sometimes previously referred to as Bude Haven. It exists southwest of Stratton, southern of Flexbury and also Poughill, and north of Widemouth Bay and lies along the A3073 road off the A39. Bude is twinned with Ergué-Gabéric in Brittany, France. Bude's coast encounters Bude Bay in the Celtic Sea, part of the Atlantic Ocean. The population of the civil parish can be discovered under Bude-Stratton. Its earlier relevance was as a harbour, and afterwards a source of sea sand helpful for improving the moorland soil. The Victorians favoured it as a watering place, and it was a popular seaside destination in the 20th century. In the 1951 Cornwall volume of The Buildings of England, Nikolaus Pevsner defined Bude as "Not an appealing harbour-town compared with others in Cornwall as well as Devon", and also continues to say that the church is "unimportant".
