We are delighted and proud that Bude has regained its title as ‘The Best UK Seaside Town’ in the 2018 British Travel Awards. That makes it three times in the last four years we’ve won the Award! Proof, if you needed it, that Bude is indeed the best place to take your holiday!
They say a picture paints a thousand words so scroll down this large collection of photos to see what is so special about Bude, not just in the summer months, but all year round. If you’re still not convinced, there are more here – or these, taken on Lifeboat Day.
- The Lower Wharf and The Falcon Hotel at night.
- Sunset behind Compass Point
- Dusk at Summerleaze beach
- The River Neet and Bude Canal at sunset.
- Summerleaze beach
- Seagull’s view of the Sea Pool
- A frosty morning at Rodd’s Bridge Lock on Bude Canal
- A spring evening at the breakwater
- Afterglow at Cross Rock, Suimmerleaze
- Maer Downs
- Winter swells at Summerleaze
- Crooklets Beach at low tide
- The Milky Way behind Barrel Rock
- Bude Sea Pool
- Thrift on the cliffs at Maer looking south to Bude Bay
- Late evening high tide at Efford Cottage
- Low tide at Summerleaze beach
- Bude town nestles behind the breakwater and Summerleaze beach
- Bude’s beaches
- The sweet smell of spring gorse on Maer cliffs
- Winter high tide at Summerleaze
- High tide in Bude Harbour
- Changeable weather over Widemouth Bay
- Barrel Rock
- After dark at the Bude Light and Castle
- Widemouth Bay
- Efford Cottage and Summerleaze beach – the classic Bude view
- Remembrance day
- Bude Canal sunset from the wharf
- Drama during a winter storm
- Winter sunset from above Crooklets
- Thrift on Efford Down looking across Bude Haven
- Bude’s fabulous Sea Pool
- Springtime at Bude harbour
- Bude’s fabulous Sea Pool
- Silage bales on Maer Down
- Bude at Christmas
- The harbour and Summerleaze beach on a glorious summer day
- Summerleaze Downs
- A spring evening at Middle beach
- Crooklets Beach
- Bude Bay
- Bude’s beaches and sea pool
- Low tide sunset at Crooklets beach
- Afterglow over the Sea Pool and Summerleaze beach
- Bude surf
- A frosty scene on Bude Canal at the Sea Lock
- Bude’s picture-perfect cricket pitch
- High tide in Bude harbour from the air
- Winter storms at Barrel Rock
- Mid-summer sunset on Bude breakwater
- Bude harbour, breakwater and Compass Point
- Winter swells behind Barrel Rock
- Compass Point
- A Typical Bude sunset
- Splashing wave at the Sea Pool at sunset
- The wonderful view of Widemouth Bay from Penhalt Cliff
- Summerleaze beach
- Sunset behind Barrel Rock
- Snow at Bude!
- Sea Pool sunset
- Maer Lake and the northern side of Bude where the Beach Haven is located
- Midsummer sunset over Bude Canal wharf
- Bude harbour in August
- Bude’s beaches
- Summertime high tide at Summerleazr
- Bude cricket pitch
- Stormy seas at Crooklets beach
- The canal at Rodd’s Bridge
- Widemouth Bay in the spring
- Low tide sunset from the Sea Lock
- Dusk at the breakwater
- Winter afternoon at Bude Sea Pool
- Bude Canal frozen over in the winter
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All photos by: Tim Martindale Photography