Charterhouse
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A Charterhouse is a Carthusian monastery. The word is derived from Chartreuse, the first monastery of the order having been established in a valley of the Chartreuse Mountains.
It can refer to numerous monasteries:
It can also refer to:
financial institutions
- Charterhouse Bank
- Charterhouse Capital Partners, a UK-based private equity firm
- Charterhouse Equity Partners, a private equity fund of Charterhouse Group
- 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 Special 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, an English public school
- Charterhouse Square, London, England
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