Charterhouse

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:

Places

London locations

• London Charterhouse, London, England, an historic complex of buildings that originally housed a monastery, now the location of such sites as The Charterhouse Hospital,
• Charterhouse School, a famous English public school in Surrey, whose correct name does not include the word School
• Charterhouse Square, London, England

Municipalities

• 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

Financial institutions

• Charterhouse Bank
• Charterhouse Capital Partners, a UK-based private equity firm
• Charterhouse Group, a US-based private equity firm

Other uses

• The Charterhouse of Parma, a novel by Stendhal
• Shepshed Dynamo F.C., an Association Football club known from 1975 to 1992 as Shepshed Charterhouse