Books Available

The history of Bude has tended to be written after the building of the Bude Canal and the development of the town we know today.

This book explores the earlier story of the closing of the estuary and the creation of a tidal pool and mill, together with the story of our iconic Nanny Moore’s bridge. The image depicts the scene in 1577 when the location was merely a habour and a haven for coastal shipping with exports largely of corn and oak bark, used in the Irish tanning process, and lime and coal imports.

For copies of the book click “Info and Support- contact me” from the menu. £14.00 including postage. Also available locally.

Other books available from local bookshops and online:

Bude Area:

Walking the Bude Canal, Bill Young

Along the Bude Canal, Joan Rendell

The Bude Canal, Helen Harris & Monica Ellis

The Aclands and Bude Haven, Kathleen Beswetherik

Bude Past and Present, Bill Young and Bryan Dudley Stamp

Thorns of Bude, Pioneers of Photography, David and Stuart Thorn

Archive Photographs Around Bude, District Old Cornwall Society.

Week St Mary:

The book, “A Community At Large” By David Martin and availoable from the Week St Mary village website.
An entertaining and informative book provides both a written and pictorial history of village life in Week St Mary from the time of its original settlement mentioned in the Domesday Book through to modern times.

General Subjects:

Cornwall’s Geology and Scenery - An introduction, by Colin M. Bristow

Hartland Quay Area:

Hartland Quay, The Story of the Vanishing Port: Michael Nix and Mark R. Myres

The Cruel Coast of North Devon; Michael Nix

The North-West Devon Coast, A Celebration of Cliffs and Seashore, from the Hartland Peninsula to the Taw-Torridge Estuary; Peter Keene, Thematic Trails

Neolithic, Bronze Age and Bodmin Moors

The Promontory People: Craig Weatherhill

Cornovia -Ancient Sites of Cornwall & Scilly: Craig Weatherhill

Cornwall in Prehistory; Toni-Maree Rowe

Hidden Landscapes of the South West Coast Path: Ruth Luckhurst

Also search: Cornish Archaeology No 34, 1995

Sites of Prehistoric Bodmin Moor: Carolyn Kennet

Cornwall’s First Golden Age - From Arthur to the Normans: Bernard Deacon.