The Bude Haven
Situated in a quiet corner of Bude, you will find The Bude Haven
(AA four star-guest accommodation). Where you can expect a warm friendly welcome with excellent hospitality and service.
01288 352305
www.budehavenhotel.com Budemeadows
Touring Park Great family run touring site near Bude in Cornwall.
Licensed bar, takeaway, Shop and heated pool (Mid & High Season).
See website for over 60’s and mid season special rates.
Open All Year 01288 361646
holiday@budemeadows.com www.budemeadows.com
use in lighthouses and the light was used in theatres to provide footlights for the stage, as it was safer than gas lighting, hence the phrase to be in the ‘limelight’ or centre stage.
South of Bude visit Trevathan Farm at St Endellion to buy St Endellion Brie, fresh local
produce or sample the excellent cakes and ice-cream. The farm has strawberry picking in season and a lovely play park with animals, zip-slide and ride-on tractors in addition to the swings and sandpit. North of Bude a visit to the Atlantic Village Retail Outlet at Bideford can be easily combined with a session at the Atlantis Adventure Park where your children can pan for gold, play crazy golf or enjoy the indoor play zone. Inland from Bude the Tamar Otter Park is a lovely place to spend a few hours and why not combine a visit to the otters with lunch somewhere free such as Homeleigh Garden Centre, at Dutson near Launceston, where the children will love the pet shop and play area, or the Lifton Strawberry Farm.
Widemouth Bay is a long sandy beach, looking out towards Lundy Island. Surfers tend to prefer the less popular beach of Crackington Haven. Back along the coombe here can be found the old church of St Gennys, which affords a wonderful coastal panorama from its churchyard. Along the coast is Sandy Mouth, an ideal family spot with lovely sands and plenty of rock pools.
The church of St Winwaloe in Poundstock, near Widemouth Bay has a macabre past. In the 14th century, the curate was a member of a gang of pirates who attacked ships sailing off Widemouth Bay. This Rev William Penfold fell out with the gang, and in 1357 the gang tracked him down to the church, and burst in while he was holding a service. Penfold was brutally murdered at the altar and his ghost still haunts the church.
Morwenstow, our last point on the north Cornish coast, a wild and imposing place offers the modern walker two worthy points of shelter, the Bush Inn a place of refuge for travellers since 950AD when it was used by
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travelling monks. An appropriately atmospheric place which still has its leper’s window in place where the needy were passed scraps, later used as a lookout by the wreckers and smugglers who operated from this alehouse.
If that all sounds too intimidating, beside the church is the Rectory Tea rooms said to be one of the best (and certainly one of the most remote) in Cornwall.
Vicar Hawker the rector in the 1800’s served a motley collection of smugglers, wreckers and dissenters from 1834 for the next forty years. He left his mark however as it was here he created a new service celebrated today all over the UK, The Harvest Festival, and his poem Song of the Western Men, became Cornwall’s National Anthem. “And shall Trelawney die? Then twenty thousand Cornishmen shall know the reason why!”
In the churchyard you can see granite cross marked ‘Unknown Yet Well Known’ to mark a grave of 30 or more seafarers that this Vicar brought up the cliffs. He was concerned that the bodies of drowned men received a Christian burial, and would scramble down the cliffs, and carry back the bodies for a church grave. He sat in his driftwood hut, smoked opium and wrote poetry. Hawker’s Hut is one of the NT’s smallest buildings; there are views from the hut down the coast to Cambeak, Tintagel, and Pentire, with Lundy Island visible in the distance.
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Dominating the skyline for miles around are the massive white satellite dishes at Cleeve Camp built in 1969. This controversial global monitoring system targets international civil communications channels passing through satellites. During the last war this little hamlet was the base for an MOD station for testing weapons of mass destruction.
The Coombe Barton Inn “The Inn on the Beach”
At Crackington Haven —————
Full Menu served Daily including
Fresh Fish and Local Chargrilled Steaks Mr Barton’s Sunday Carvery from 12.30
Takeaway Fish and Chips available —————
Bed and Breakfast Accommodation available
Events Room and Private Bar available on request —————
The Coombe Barton Inn, Crackington Haven, Nr Bude, Cornwall EX23 0JG
Tel. 01840 230345
Email:
thecoombebartoninn@btconnect.com Web:
www.thecoombebartoninn.co.uk
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