BUDE, a small seaport and watering-place of Cornwall, Eng land, on the north coast at the mouth of the river Bude. With the market town of Stratton, 1 gym. inland to the east, it forms the urban district of Stratton and Bude, with a population (1931) of 3,836. The coast scenery in the neighbourhood is fine, especially towards the south, where high cliffs, with 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 harbour, sheltered by a breakwater, will admit vessels of 30o tons at 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.
Bude is served by a branch of the Southern railway. Its only notable building is the Early English parish church.