BUDE  , a small seaport and watering-

place in the Launceston parliamentary division of Cornwall, . England, on the north coast at the mouth of the river Bude . With the market town of Stratton, ri m. inland to the east, it forms the urban district of Stratton and Bude, with a population (19o1) of 2308 . Bude is served by a branch of the London & South-Western railway . Its only notable building is the Early English parish church of St Michael and All Angels . The climate is healthy and the coast scenery in the neighbourhood fine, especially towards the south . There the gigantic cliffs, with their banded strata, have been broken into fantastic forms by the waves . Many ships have been wrecked on the jagged reefs which fringe their base . The figure-head of one of these, the " Bencellon," lost in 1862, is preserved in the churchyard . The harbour, sheltered by a breakwater, will admit vessels of 300 tons at high water; and the river has been dammed to form a basin for the canal which runs to Launceston . Some fishing is carried on: but the staple trade is the export of sand, which, being highly charged with carbonate of lime, is much used for manure . There are golf links near the town .

The currents in the

bay make bathing dangerous .