Bude is a seaside town in north east Cornwall, England, in the civil parish of Bude-Stratton and at the mouth of the River Neet .
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11 Facts About Bude
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The cliffs around Bude are the only ones in Cornwall that are made of Carboniferous sandstone, as most of the Cornish coast is formed of Devonian slate, granite and Precambrian metamorphic rocks.
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The stratified cliffs of Bude give their name to a sequence of rocks called the Bude Formation.
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Bude-Stratton is said to have been a settlement since the Bronze Age but nothing remains of it.
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Bude became popular in Victorian times for sea bathing, inspired by the Romantic movement.
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Bude Castle was built about 1830 on sand on a concrete raft for Victorian inventor Sir Goldsworthy Gurney and is a heritage centre.
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In 1953, Bude became home to the first Surf Life Saving Club, in the UK, while the popular lido Bude Sea Pool opened in 1930.
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The popularity caused TripAdvisor to temporarily suspend all reviews for the Bude Tunnel, citing a number of reviews that "do not describe a first-hand experience".
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Bude developed its own newspaper in 1924, The Bude and Stratton Post.
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Bude area is a telecommunications hub, with major subsea cables landing at nearby Widemouth Bay.
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Bude is in the North Cornwall parliamentary constituency which is represented by Scott Mann MP.
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