Bude is one of the favourite cornish resorts, popular for its miles of large classic sandy beaches. The premier beaches are Summerlease and Crooklets. Summerlease beach has the largest free open air swimming pool in the country and also, on the Breakwater, a smaller swimming pool built into the breaqkwater known as St Thomas's Pit (originally a victorian pool for male bathers only)! Both beaches have impressive modern cafeterias offering an array of quality and modern style food. Crooklets beach is the main surfing beach- being on the Atlantic coast there is huge waves for surfing and this is where the swurf championships are often held. What else is there to do in Bude other than enjoy the beaches? A town with varied and intersting shops and waterside cafes and eating places. walk up old Bude Canal and the canal museum (small) and there is a Bird Sanctuary for wild birds on the route. Also boat and rowing boat/kyak hire on the Canal. Tennis Courts. A golf course on the Downs. The old town Manor Offices now house the towns new museum which hosts an impressive painint of local notables painted about 1980 by the famous Plymouth artist Leincizw.
 

The beach at Bude	Crooklets beach	Bude  breakwater

	Beach  swimming pool	Open air  swimming pool

Enjoying the sea	The evenings end	Kite flying on bude cliffs

Town shops	Boating on the e Canal	Old Bude Canal

Some Holiday  cottages in Bude

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