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none. The small Bude River flows to sea side by side with the artificial waterway. N.W. of the town spread the breezy Summerleaze Downs, much favoured by golfers; and below the cliffs is a noble stretch of sands. Bude makes a convenient centre from which to visit places more interesting than itself; coaches run to Clovelly, Hartland, Boscastle, and Tintagel. Those who would counteract unflattering opinions of the place should read Dr. George Macdonald's Seaboard Parish, in which, amid much tedious moralising, are some admirable descriptions of the district. Bude is the Kilkhaven of the novel, but for his church Macdonald must have gone elsewhere—and he need not have gone far. Bude church is tame and modern. Numberless traces of shipwreck strew all this coast, and broken spars and ship-beams may often be found in the fields, sometimes converted to agricultural uses.
St. Budock. (See Falmouth.)
St. Buryan (5½ m. S.W. of Penzance) is so named from Buriena, the beautiful daughter of a Munster chieftain; perhaps she was the Bruinsech of the Donegal Martyrology. She came to Cornwall in the days of St. Piran. Her oratory may either have been on the site of the present church, or it may have been at a spot named the Sentry (sanctuary), about a mile S.E. It is stated that during his expedition through Cornwall, subduing the "West Welsh," Athelstan first sighted the Isles of
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