Bude
Bude is a small town of around 6000
people on the north coast of Cornwall, about thirty miles to the south
west of Bideford. A popular tourist resort, with attractive golden sandy
beaches nestling between spectacular cliffs, Bude was once notorious for
the many shipwrecked vessels which came to grief on its rough exposed
Atlantic coastline, plundered, it is said, by the local “wreckers”. The
same windy coastline has more recently made Bude popular with surfers.
The building of a canal, linked to Bude’s harbour, in the early
nineteenth century helped the town grow. The canal now attracts pleasure
boats and coarse fishermen. The map
below shows the town of Bude as it was around the middle of the
twentieth century. Click on a selected area of the map below to see an
enlargement.
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