Bude is a tiny seaside resort town in north east Cornwall, England, in the civil parish of Bude-Stratton and at the mouth of the River Neet (likewise known locally as the River Strat). It was often formerly called Bude Haven. It lies southwest of Stratton, south of Flexbury as well as Poughill, and north of Widemouth Bay as well as lies along the A3073 road off the A39. Bude is twinned with Ergué-Gabéric in Brittany, France. Bude's coast deals with Bude Bay in the Celtic Sea, part of the Atlantic Ocean. The population of the civil parish can be located under Bude-Stratton. Its earlier importance was as a harbour, and then a resource of sea sand valuable for improving the moorland dirt. The Victorians favoured it as a watering place, and also it was a prominent seaside location in the 20th century. In the 1951 Cornwall quantity of The Structures of England, Nikolaus Pevsner explained Bude as "Not an appealing harbour-town compared to others in Cornwall and also Devon", and remains to state that the church is "inconsequential".