BUDE, a village and sea-port (small), on the coast of the Bristol channel, in the parish of STRATTON, and hundred of STRATTON, county of CORNWALL. The population is returned with the parish. It has of late years hecome a place of resort for bathing. The trade of the port has recently received a stimulus from the construction of'the Bude and Launceston canal: the imports are coal and limestone from Wales, and grocery, &c., from Bristol; 'and timber, bark, and oats, are sent coastwise. The harbour is inaccessible to ships of large burden, on account of the sands, those connected with it averaging not more than fifty tons each, though vessels of ninety tons' burden have often entered. A great quantity of sand is conveyed inland for manuring the soil. The sea is fast encroaching on the coast, having made a considerable inroad within the last fifty years.