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popularity in England
...names shovegroat, slide-groat, and shovel-penny. Some of the great country houses had boards of exquisite workmanship; that at Chartley Hall in Staffordshire was more than 30 feet (9 metres) long. Shove-ha’penny, a later version of shovel-penny, in which a coin or disk is pushed along a polished board so that it stops between closely ruled lines, is still a popular game in English pubs.