Charterhouse

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Charterhouse may refer to:

• Charterhouse (monastery), of the Carthusian religious order

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

See also

• Certosa (disambiguation), the Italian name for a Carthusian monastery
• Chartreuse (disambiguation), the French name for a Carthusian monastery