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The old bridge crosses the River Neet as it flows towards the sea at nearby Bude.
With its shallow sandy bays, broad grassy downs, civic gardens, and terraces of unpretentious lodging houses, Bude is almost completely an Edwardian construction.
Situated to the west of Stratton, Bude Castle was built on a promontory by Sir Goldsworthy Gurney in 1850.
Stratton was formerly more important than Bude.
This hilltop village, at the head of the Coombe Valley, sits astride the main road between Bude and Barnstaple.
In 1811 the local boat builder at Salcombe completed the ketch 'Ceres' for Capt William Lewis of Bude for trading with north Spanish ports, though for much of 1813 and 1814 she was employed carrying
The lower end of the Bude Canal has a basin with a sea lock to allow ships to enter and remain afloat.
Opened in 1823, the Bude Canal served a large area of north Cornwall.
Bude sea lock is still in use today, although the rest of the canal was abandoned in 1896.
The Bude Canal was opened in 1826 from this harbour basin, with a sea lock just visible in the distance.
Crackington Haven, six miles south of Bude, sits in a deep valley in the parish of St Gennys.
Bude's bay is protected from the brunt of the heaviest Atlantic weather by a breakwater connecting Chapel Rock with the shoreline.
Bude sea lock is still in use today, although the rest of the canal was abandoned in 1896.
This is Bude Canal Sea Lock in 1893, two years after the waterway had been reduced to the 1.25 mile stretch to Rodd's Bridge; in reality it was little more than an extension of the harbour, which continued
Being one of the few beaches south of Bude that can be accessed by car ensured that Crackington Haven had its compliment of holiday facilities, such as the hotel we see here with players just visible on
Barrel Rock (centre right, with the marker post) marks the end of Bude's breakwater.
The canal was closed, except for the Bude section, in 1891.
The Bude Canal was something of an oddity.
The Bude Canal, in which these schooners are moored, was built in 1823 to carry sand inland to improve farmland, but it ended up carrying all manner of cargoes including coal from South Wales.
The lifeboat is the third one to be stationed at Bude, the 'Elizabeth Moore Garden 2'.
