The Trust’s length of the Bude Canal is fascinating and rewarding in terms of both its wildlife and landscape.

Wildlife:

At any time of the year you are likely to see a variety of flowers and wildlife along the towpath. From the snowdrops of early spring through to the late summer flowers there is a good variety. In winter there may befoxes in the surrounding fields or buzzards overhead. In spring the residentbirds are joined by spring migrants. In summer a good variety of butterflies and dragonflies can be observed.

Landscape:

The local landscape is particularly notable for its quiet remoteness, its timeless quality of invoking what thelandscape must have been like when the canal was at the height of its working life. At that time such landscape character would have been common throughout the country, but today this area is one of the relatively few retaining these qualities largely unchanged. Hedged fields, small woods and copses, unimproved pasture and ancient farms are all features of the canal’s landscape.