These books are available from local bookshops and online:
Bude Area:
Bude Tide Mill and Bridge, Nicholas Cole (click “Contact Me above”)
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