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Regional pub games

Also known as Bat and Trap · Aunt Sally · Toad in the Hole · Ringing the Bull

Regional pub games: photograph by Obscurasky
Photo: Obscurasky, Public domain, source on Wikimedia Commons

Regional pub and garden games: bat and trap (Kent), Aunt Sally (Oxfordshire), toad in the hole (Sussex), ringing the bull (Nottingham).

Heritage note

Part of the living heritage of United Kingdom.

Origins

Usually placed in the era of Age of Contact and Craft (about 1500 to 1800), although its exact origins are uncertain, within the cultural world of Celtic and Atlantic Europe.

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