Falcon Hotel in Bude, Cornwall, United Kingdom | Hotel

The Falcon Hotel is the oldest coaching house in North Cornwall and was once the headquarters for the four-horse coaches running between Bideford, Clovelly, Bude, Boscastle, Tintagel and Newquay. Travellers have been welcomed here for nearly two hundred years and that old-time warm, friendly atmosphere is apparent as soon as you walk through the front door of the Falcon Hotel.

Overlooking the Bude Canal and with its beautiful walled gardens, the Falcon Hotel has one of the finest settings in Cornwall.

The Falcon Hotel was established in 1798 when, as a Lodging House, it provided accommodation for the Captains of the Merchant Vessels that were trading or taking shelter in Bude Haven. After the opening of the Bude Canal, the Lodging House became the Falcon Crest Inn and in 1826 was further extended to become the Falcon Hotel. These developments were made while under the patronage of Sir Thomas Dyke Acland who was one of the largest landowners in Bude at the time.

Many famous people have stayed here in the past including Alfred Lord Tennyson who in 1848 broke his leg when he fell over the garden wall. He wrote several letters afterwards saying he knew of no better place in which to convalesce.