About Bude

Places to stay near Bude, North Cornwall

Find out more about the Bude area

Room for up to 25 people

Our two holiday properties can be hired individually or together and can accommodate up to 25 people

Wonderful location

Thurlibeer House and Thurlibeer Cottage are just four miles from Bude’s beaches and its many traditional seaside attractions.

Own gardens

Both Thurlibeer House and Thurlibeer Cottage have their own garden and command wonderful views across the countryside towards the sea.

Perfect base

The setting on the main Holsworthy to Bude road is very convenient for exploring this delightful corner of North Cornwall.

About Bude

Bude became a very popular resort town in the closing years of the 19th Century.

The arrival of reliable rail travel made Bude a popular holiday destination and brought prosperity. Many sought romance and appreciation of the Arthurian Legend, and took the Atlantic Coast Express from Waterloo.

Prior to this Bude had been a small harbour town best known for its canal which was used to carry its fertilising sea sand inland to improve the quality of the farmland.

Bude Has History

Bude's sea-faring history is extensive, with its position on a "smugglers coast" and a breakwater to provide shelter from the sometimes ferocious Atlantic rollers for coastal trading in meat, grain, coal and daily supplies.

Bude is a working fishing port today. You can explore much of our history in the newly refurbished "Castle" museum or by visiting the Bude Canal - repairs following storm damage to the lock gates are under way and a regeneration project is under way, helping to tell the Bude Canal story.

Cornwall or Kernow has a religious history dating back to the Irish and Breton saints who braved the seas to bring Christianity to our shores, St Piran, St Petroc, St Tudy, St Just, St Enodoc, St Mawes amongst many. The towns name Bude is meant to be a shortening of Bede Haven "the wise man's harbour"

Perfect For Everyone

For parents, children and grandparents, young couples, the solo walker or cyclist, yachtsmen, golfers, horsemen and women, kayakers, and especially surfers Bude has a great deal to offer.

There are two main beaches, with the famous sands of Widemouth Bay within a few miles. Sandymouth, Northcott Mouth, Millook with its world famous rock formations are very near. Boscastle, St Nectans Glen, Clovelly, Hartland Point, Padstow, The Eden Project and many other beautiful south and North Coast towns and attractions are easily reached for "a day out".

We are blessed with a beautiful coastline and a glorious countryside. Restaurants, pubs, coffee shops, clothes shops and supermarkets, attractions and facilities are both new and up to date as well as established and mature - catering for all tastes.