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Coordinates: 50°49′26″N 4°32′28″W / 50.824, -4.541 Bude is a town located in Franklin County, Mississippi. ...
Guillaume Budé (Latin: Guglielmus Budaeus) (January 26, 1467 – August 23, 1540) was a French scholar. ...
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The EX postcode area, also known as the Exeter postcode area[2], is a group of postal districts around Axminster, Barnstaple, Beaworthy, Bideford, Braunton, Bude, Budleigh Salterton, Chulmleigh, Colyton, Crediton, Cullompton, Dawlish, Exeter, Exmouth, Holsworthy, Honiton, Ilfracombe, Lynmouth, Lynton, North Tawton, Okehampton, Ottery St Mary, Seaton, Sidmouth, South Molton, Tiverton...
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Bude (Cornish: Bud) is a small seaside resort town in north Cornwall, England, UK, at the mouth of the River Neet. For the Cornish-English dialect, see West Country dialects. ...
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Its earlier importance was as a harbour, and then a source of sea sand useful for improving the moorland soil. The Victorians favoured it as a watering place, and it was a popular seaside destination in the twentieth century.
The town Present-day Bude is a pleasant small town with character. It has two beaches with excellent broad sands close to the town itself, and is a good centre for adjacent beaches. Its sea front faces west and the Atlantic rollers make for good surfing when conditions are right. “Atlantic†redirects here. ...
Notable buildings include the early English parish church, St Olaf's in the village of Poughill just outside of Bude, the parish church of St Michael and All Angels, Ebbingford Manor, and the town's oldest house, Quay Cottage in the centre of town. Bude Canal, which once ran to Launceston, now runs only a few miles inland. The village of Poughill (pronunces Poffle) is about one mile inland north of Bude. ...
The Bude Canal was originally planed as a highly ambitious project to build about 95 miles of canal for taking mineral rich sand from Bude, England to the Cornish hinterland to improve the quality of the land. ...
Launceston (pronounced Lanson, Larnson or Lawnson by the Cornish, but Lawnston by most other people) is a town in the north of Cornwall, England, with a population of approximately 7,000. ...
Until the start of the twentieth century, the neighbouring town of Stratton was dominant, and a local saying is "Stratton was a market town when Bude was just a furzy down", meaning Stratton was long established when Bude was just gorse-covered downland.
Beaches There are a number of good beaches in the Bude area, many of which offer good surfing conditions. Bude was the founder club in British Surf Life Saving. For other uses, see Surfing (disambiguation). ...
- Summerleaze and Crooklets beaches are both within the town;
 View of the beach in Bude and the canal coming to an end as it reaches the sea lock (on left of image) - Widemouth Bay is a few miles south of the town and offers a long, wide sandy beach;
- Sandymouth Beach is owned by the National Trust, and has spectacular cliffs and rock formations with shingle below the cliffs and a large expanse of sand at low tide.
- Northcott Mouth Beach is situated north of Bude
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Widemouth Bay in North Cornwall Widemouth Bay sands is a very long open bay with a varied and interesting beach. ...
Sandymouth is a beach three miles to the north of Bude, Cornwall, England. ...
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Industry Tourism is the main industry in the Bude area whilst some fishing is carried on. In the past, the staple trade was the export of sand, which, being highly charged with carbonate of lime, was much used for manure. There are also golf links in the town. There is some local debate as to the origins of the golf course. It has been suggested the land the course occupies was given to the town for leisure use and that a few wealthy individuals took it to create a golf course excluding most of the townspeople from full enjoyment of the land.
Bude has an industrial estate which houses Bott Ltd, who manufacture racking and tool holding accessories and storage systems for vans and workshops, and Tripos Receptor Research who produce prototypes of drugs for the pharmaceutical industry.
Landscape and geology Bude and the surrounding area has impressive coastal scenery. Many ships have been wrecked on the jagged reefs which fringe their base. The figure-head of one of these, the "Bencoolen" lost in 1862, is preserved in the churchyard. This article is about 1862 . ...
The Carboniferous sandstone cliffs that surround Bude (and stretch down as far as Crackington Haven) were formed during the Carboniferous Era, around 300 million years ago. The folded and contorted stratification of shale and sandstone is unique in southern England, although the Gower Peninsula and the Vale of Glamorgan, across the Bristol Channel in Wales, have a similar stratification. During the Variscan Orogeny, which affected the entire Cornish coast, the cliffs were pushed up from underneath the sea, creating the overlapping strata. As the sands and cliffs around Bude contain calcium carbonate (a natural fertiliser), farmers used to take sand from the beach, for spreading on their fields. The cliffs around Bude are the only ones in Cornwall that are made of carboniferous sandstone, as most of the Cornish coast is geologically formed of Devonian slate, granite and Precambrian metamorphic rocks). The stratified cliffs of Bude give their name to a geological event called the Bude Formation. Many formations can be viewed from the South West Coast Path which passes through the town. The Carboniferous is a major division of the geologic timescale that extends from the end of the Devonian period, about 359. ...
Red sandstone interior of Lower Antelope Canyon, Arizona, worn smooth due to erosion by flash flooding over millions of years Sandstone is a sedimentary rock composed mainly of sand-size mineral or rock grains. ...
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Slate Slate Macro Slate roof Slate is a fine-grained, homogeneous, metamorphic rock derived from an original shale-type sedimentary rock composed of clay or volcanic ash through low grade regional metamorphism. ...
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Bude Harbour and Canal
 The sea lock on Bude Canal In the eighteenth century there was a small unprotected tidal harbour at Bude, but it was difficult whenever the sea was up. The Bude Canal Company built a canal and improved the harbour. Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (1199x1536, 339 KB) Picture of sea lock on bude canal trimed from original image do to dust mote in the bottem corner I, the creator of this work, hereby grant the permission to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under...
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Around twenty small boats use the tidal moorings of the original harbour during the summer months. Most are sport fishermen, but there is also some small-scale, semi-commercial, fishing for crab and lobster.
There is a wharf on the Bude Canal about half a mile from the sea lock that links the canal to the tidal haven. This can be opened only at or near high tide, and then only when sea conditions allow. North Cornwall District Council [1] administer the canal, harbour and lock gates. These gates were recently renewed, as the originals were damaged in a storm. They are the only manually-operated sea lock gates in England. The pier head by the locks is a Grade II listed structure. The Bude Canal was originally planed as a highly ambitious project to build about 95 miles of canal for taking mineral rich sand from Bude, England to the Cornish hinterland to improve the quality of the land. ...
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The canal is one of the few of note in south-west England. Its original purpose was to take small tub boats of mineral-rich sand from the beaches at Bude and carry them inland for agricultural use on fields. A series of inclined planes carried the boats over 400 vertical feet to Red Post, where the canal branched south along the upper Tamar Valley towards Launceston, east to Holsworthy and north to the Tamar Lakes, that fed the canal. The enterprise was always in financial difficulty, but it carried considerable volumes of sand and also coal from south Wales. The arrival at Holsworthy of the railway, and the production of cheap manufactured fertiliser undermined the canal's commercial purpose, and it was closed down and sold to the district municipal water company. However the wharf area and harbour enjoyed a longer success, and coastal sailing ships carried grain across to Wales and coal back to Cornwall. Tub boats were a type of unpowered cargo boat used on a number of the early English[1] and German[2] canals. ...
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 View looking towards the sea "Haven" from the sea lock In 2005 a major project to re-develop the canal was approved. Work included improving the banks and opening-up a long-closed section of canal. Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (1792x1200, 1307 KB) Taken myself shows bude haven from the top gates of the sea lock. ...
Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (1792x1200, 1307 KB) Taken myself shows bude haven from the top gates of the sea lock. ...
Origin of the name It is suggested that the modern name is a shortened form of Bude Haven and that this in turn was a corruption of the name Bede Haven meaning "Harbour of the holy men" suggesting Bude might have been a landing place for early Christians.
Victorian resort
 The Haven, the Atlantic Ocean and the beach at Bude In the latter part of Queen Victoria's reign, the middle classes were discovering the attractions of sea bathing, and the romantic movement encouraged an appreciation of wild scenery and the Arthurian Legend. The London and South Western Railway was anxious to develop holiday making in North Cornwall and extended a railway branch line to Holsworthy, opened in 1879. There was a horse-drawn coach connection to Bude. The line was extended to Bude itself in 1898. Image File history File links Metadata Size of this preview: 786 × 599 pixelsFull resolution (1709 × 1303 pixel, file size: 280 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) Bude outer harbour and beach August 2007 I, the copyright holder of this work, hereby release it into the public domain. ...
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Waterloo Station The London and South Western Railway (L&SWR) was a railway company in England from 1840 to 1923. ...
These developments encouraged the holiday trade, but Bude never rivalled Newquay and the south Cornwall and Devon resorts.
Railway connections Bude first had a railway connection at Holsworthy, ten miles away, in 1879; the railway came to Bude itself in 1898[2].
The Bude branch line was closed on 1st October 1966, and Bude now finds itself rather distant from the rail network: Barnstaple (35 miles north east) and Liskeard (35 miles south) are the nearest National Rail stations. The Okehampton to Bude Line was a railway line built to serve Bude, on the Cornish coast near the Devon border in England. ...
Local government Bude is in the North Cornwall parliamentary constituency. It developed from the much older market town of Stratton, 1 1/8 miles inland to the east. In common with many rural towns, there is a three-tier structure of local government: Cornwall County Council (administers, for example, schools and highways); North Cornwall District Council (canal and harbour, refuse and recycling collection, street cleanliness); and Bude-Stratton Town Council (local children's playground, Bude "castle"). There was some local argument when the town council adopted the name Bude-Stratton, as it was previously Stratton-Bude. Bude's population in 1901 was 2308; by 2001 it had risen to 4674 [2]. North Cornwall is a county constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. ...
Stratton is a small town in North Cornwall near the coastal resort of Bude. ...
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Year 1901 (MCMI) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Monday [1] of the 13-day-slower Julian calendar). ...
Year 2001 (MMI) was a common year starting on Monday (link displays the 2001 Gregorian calendar). ...
Twinning Bude is twinned with
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Temple of the Winds At the northern most point of Efford Down Farm, over looking Summerleaze Beach and the breakwater, a former coastguard lookout stands. Known as Compass Point and built by the Acland family in 1840 of local sandstone, it is based on the Temple of Winds in Athens. It was moved to its current position in 1880. It is so called as it has points of the compass carved in each of its octagonal sides.[3]
The Bude 'Boom' On the 26th October 2006 at approximately 11:50 am, Bude was the apparent epicentre of a loud and unexplained noise which rapidly became known as "The Bude Boom". The local media reported some damage to properties around the Bude area and local authorities received many calls about a suspected explosion, although no evidence was found to support this. Experts have ruled out the possibility of an earth tremor and have suggested that it may have been caused either by a military aircraft breaking the sound barrier[4] or a meteor exploding in the atmosphere.[5] (Redirected from 26th October) October 26 is the 299th day of the year (300th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 66 days remaining. ...
Year 2006 (MMVI) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Photo of a burst of meteors with extended exposure time A meteor is the visible path of a meteoroid that enters the Earths (or another bodys) atmosphere, commonly called a shooting star or falling star. ...
References Wikisource has an original article from the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica about: - This article incorporates text from the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition, a publication now in the public domain.
- ^ http://neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/LeadTableView.do?a=3&b=792820&c=Bude&d=16&e=15&g=430641&i=1001x1003x1004&o=1&m=0&enc=1&dsFamilyId=779
- ^ Wroe, D J, The Bude Branch, 1988, Kingfisher Railway Productions, ISBN 0 946184 43 7
- ^ http://www.efforddown.co.uk/about.htm
- ^ bbc.co.uk, "Mystery 'explosion' damages homes", BBC, http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/cornwall/6088008.stm](accessed 2006-10-29)
- ^ bbc.co.uk, "'Meteor' caused mystery explosion", BBC, http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/cornwall/6096208.stm (accessed 2006-10-29)
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