The Jessie Hughes Village Hall Eaton
Royal Lane Eaton Tarporley Cheshire CW6 9AA
jhvh.booking@gmail.com Charity Number 510073
‘The Jessie’ has been serving the rural communities of Eaton and Rushton near Tarporley in Cheshire since 1926. It was re-built in 2008.
We have a main hall with a capacity of around 100 people and a smaller meeting room for around 12 people. The Hall is used for regular activities throughout the week and is available for private functions and events hire.
The Village Hall is a registered charity and governed under the Jessie Hughes Institute (Charity Number 510073).
To find out about booking the Hall, please visit the Booking page.
Facilities
The Village Hall has a welcoming entrance foyer, main hall, boardroom-style meeting room (Ron Chisnall Meeting Room), well-equipped kitchen, accessible toilets and wi-fi. The main hall and meeting room are independent of each other and can be booked separately. Two storerooms house 100 stackable chairs, 20 fold-away tables and user group equipment. The car park can accommodate up to 20 vehicles. A community defibrillator is located by the entrance.
Main Hall
Ron Chisnall
Meeting Room
Kitchen
80 People Seated, 100 Standing
The main hall (15m x 9m) has capacity for up to 100 people standing, 80 seated theatre-style and 80 seated at tables dining-style. It has a sprung wooden floor, large wall-hanging screen for showing films and presentations, and a hearing loop. The south-west facing side of the main hall opens onto a terrace overlooking open countryside.
12 People Seated
The Ron Chisnall Meeting Room is named in honour of Ron, who gave unstintingly of his time to the Jessie Hughes Committee for almost 30 years, including periods as Chair and Secretary. The room will seat 12 at the fully-extended conference-style table and can be booked separately to the Main Hall.
Serving Hatch to Main Hall
The well-equipped kitchen has two cookers, two sinks, fridge-freezer, wall-mounted Burco water-heater, microwave and sufficient crockery, cutlery and glasses. A wide restaurant-style, shuttered serving hatch opens out into the main hall.
Our History
1926 – 2007:
Mrs Jessie Hughes was the wife of the Rector of Tarporley. As President of the Women’s Institute, she played a prominent part in providing a Village Hall for Eaton. Money was raised from two village fetes held on the Arderne Estate in May 1925 and September 1926, and along with other monies from subscriptions, whist drives and concerts, just over £500 was raised for building and furnishing the Eaton Institute.
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Regular
ACTIVITIES
“The Jessie Hughes Institute is a very modern, light and comfortable hall to hire. It had everything we needed and it was a very easy process to book the hall. Highly recommended! It was a great success, and lots of comments about what a lovely village hall it is as people had travelled from all over the country to come!”
Gemma - Parenting Class
January 2022
“Thank you to Val Tough and Jessie Hughes Village Hall for being so accommodating during what has been a very difficult period for meeting and hosting external conferences. The Jessie Hughes Village Hall provides excellent facilities, portable and clean equipment, fully equipped with a kitchen and meeting facilities. All of our requests were responded to quickly and was easy to arrange.”
Harry - United Utilities
January 2022