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The Euston Hall Jig

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THE EUSTON HALL JIG (J8x32) 3C (4C set) Sylvia Edie The Sylvan Dancers

1- 8 2L+1s also 2M+3s dance LSh reels of 3 across (2s LSh to 1st corner to start). 1s pass RSh
9-16 2L+3s also 2M+1s dance RSh reels of 3 across (2s RSh to 2nd corner to start)
17-24 1s nearer hands joined dance down, cast behind 3s, meet and dance up between 3s, cast up behind 2s to meet at top nearer hands joined. (Bar 24: 2s step in to face 1s nearer hands joined)
25-32 1s+2s dance ½ Rondel:
 25-28 1s dance down under the arch made by 2s who dance up, 2s+1s cross (Ladies cross in front of Men) and all cast to meet other Lady/Man on the opposite side and join nearer hands. (2)(1)3
 29-32 2s+1s set and cross RH with partner, back to own sides. 213

(MINICRIB. Dance crib compiled by Charles Upton, Deeside Caledonian Society, and his successors)


Dance Information

As Mervyn Short has helpfully pointed out, the dance name does not refer to the country house in Suffolk.

The name, Euston Hall, was used by dancers for 1 Birkenhead Street, in the area of London owned by the Dukes of Grafton; it was the headquarters of the Imperial Society of Teachers of Dancing (ISTD) for several years in the 1980s.

Sylvia Edie devised the dance to celebrate the ISTD's moving to these premises; it was also entered for the Jack McConachie Memorial Sword Competition, organised by the ISTD.


Euston Hall is more widely known as a country house with a park designed by William Kent and Capability Brown. It is located in Euston, a small village in Suffolk, just south of Thetford, England. It is the family home of the Dukes of Grafton.

Euston is mentioned in the Domesday Book of 1087 as a manor owned by Bury St. Edmunds Abbey. In 1578, Elizabeth I stayed there with the Rookwood family, during which a hidden image of the Virgin Mary was found. The estate, nearly in ruins, was bought in 1666 by Henry Bennet, Earl of Arlington, who built a grand house in the French style. Charles II visited the estate in 1671, accompanied by a large court, including the diarist John Evelyn.

Charles II arranged the marriage of his illegitimate son, Henry FitzRoy, to Isabella Bennet, the Earl of Arlington's heiress, in 1672. FitzRoy was made Duke of Grafton in 1675, and they married again in 1679 when Isabella was twelve. The couple inherited Euston Hall in 1685. Around 1750, their son, the second Duke, remodeled the house with Matthew Brettingham, replacing the domes with pyramid roofs. A fire in 1902 destroyed parts of the house, which was rebuilt, but the south and most of the west wings were demolished in 1952 by the 10th Duke.

The estate lent its name to Euston railway station, London's first inter-city station, which opened in 1837. The Dukes played a key role in the development of the station and of the surrounding land which they owned.


Euston Hall - 1 Birkenhead Street, London, WC1
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Euston Hall
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