Charterhouse-on-Mendip
CHARTERHOUSE-on-Mendip, a district, in the union of Axbridge, liberty of Wytham Friary (though locally in the hundred of Winterstoke), E. division of Somerset, 5½ miles (E. N. E.) from Axbridge; containing 99 inhabitants. Here was a cell to the priory of Witham, which, as part of the possessions of that establishment, was granted away in the 36th of the reign of Henry VIII.
Transcribed from A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858.