---
title: "Bude – what to see, and every way to get there | Mixroutes"
description: "How to get to Bude from Cardiff, Bristol and London: every way compared, with today's quickest and its fare. Bude is a seaside town in north Cornwall…"
url: "https://www.mixroutes.com/places/bude"
markdown: "https://www.mixroutes.com/places/bude.md"
image: "https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/14/Sninsk%C3%BD_kame%C5%88_%28v_zime%29_001.jpg/1920px-Sninsk%C3%BD_kame%C5%88_%28v_zime%29_001.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail"
---

![Bude](https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/14/Sninsk%C3%BD_kame%C5%88_%28v_zime%29_001.jpg/1920px-Sninsk%C3%BD_kame%C5%88_%28v_zime%29_001.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)

# Bude

Bude is a seaside town in north Cornwall, England, in the civil parish of Bude-Stratton and at the mouth of the River Neet.

[Plan a trip to Bude](https://www.mixroutes.com/?to=Bude) [From Cardiff](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Cardiff&to=Bude)

## Every way there

- Cardiff → Bude 120 km · quickest by road, 3h 28m · £23–31 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/cardiff-to-bude) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Cardiff&to=Bude)
- Bristol → Bude 153 km · quickest by road, 2h 51m · £18–25 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/bristol-to-bude) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Bristol&to=Bude)
- London → Bude 317 km · quickest by road, 5h 2m · £33–45 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/london-to-bude) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=London&to=Bude)

Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.

The field note

What is in and around Bude, ranked by how widely it is written about, how you reach it, and the nearest places where we have researched how people move.

[Read the note on Bude](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/bude)

What Bude has

- Y Scheduled flights Cardiff (CWL), 105 km
- Y Trains and coaches Transitous carries 3 timetable feeds for this country, 2 with real-time
- N Ferries no crossing within 25 km
- Y Driving and taxi OpenStreetMap roads; cab fare from the country band
- N Bike and scooter share no share feed known
- N Cruises no open itinerary source anywhere

Y routable now · F found, not yet implemented · N no source known.

50.824°, -4.542°

It was sometimes formerly known as Bude Haven.

See

## Worth seeing

The cliffs. Bude is the only part of the Cornish coast that is made of sandstone cliffs; starting from Hartland point (over the border in Devon), passing Bude and terminating just north of Boscastle (where the harder old Devonian slate cliffs becomes apparent), the carboniferous sandstone cliffs are the highest in Cornwall (the highest cliff in Cornwall is south of Bude, the 735 ft uninspiringly named "high cliff").

1. Hawker's Hut Morwenstow, near Bude, EX23 9SR.

Do

## Things to do

Bude and North Cornwall are known for great surfing on beaches such as Widemouth Bay (1 mile of golden sand and surf), Summerleaze and Crooklets. Sandy Mouth and Crackington Haven are just a short drive away. All these beaches have lifeguards during the summer months. Summerleaze Beach also has a tidal 90m seapool, one of only a few in the country.

Eat

## Where to eat

1. Atlantic Diner Great food with giant portions of it for quite cheap!
2. Elements Marine Drive, EX23 0LZ, info@elements-life.co.uk.
3. Bay View Inn Marine Drive, EX23 0AW, reservations@bayviewinn.co.uk.
4. The Falcon Hotel Wholesome food, bar meals or in the restaurant.

Text adapted from [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bude) and [Wikivoyage](https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Bude), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photograph: Milan Bališin (see Commons), Wikimedia Commons.


---

This is the markdown version of https://www.mixroutes.com/places/bude, for search crawlers and AI assistants. The HTML page is the canonical copy. Mixroutes is made by Lascade LLC, Sharjah Media City, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates. Index of every page: https://www.mixroutes.com/llms.txt