Charterhouse
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A charterhouse is a Carthusian monastery. The word is derived by phono-semantic matching from the French term chartreuse, the first monastery of the order having been established in a valley of the Chartreuse Mountains (see List of Carthusian monasteries).
It can also refer to:
Financial institutions
- Charterhouse Bank
- Charterhouse Capital Partners, a UK-based private equity firm
- Charterhouse Group, private equity firm
- Charterhouse Group, a US-based private equity firm
Places
- Charterhouse, Somerset, also Charterhouse-on-Mendip, a hamlet in the Mendip Hills, England
- Charterhouse Roman Town, a town in the Roman province of Britannia, located close to Charterhouse-on-Mendip
- Hinton Charterhouse, a village in Somerset, England
Sites of scientific interest
- Charterhouse to Eashing, in Surrey, England
- Hinton Charterhouse Field, in Somerset, England
- Hinton Charterhouse Pit, in Somerset, England
Other
- The Charterhouse of Parma, a novel by Stendhal
- Charterhouse School, a famous English public school in Surrey
- Charterhouse Square, London, England
- London Charterhouse, London, England "The Charterhouse Hospital" and the original site of Charterhouse School
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