The Castle (disambiguation)

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For people named Castle, see Castle (surname)

A castle is a fortified structure used to defend a territory

Castle or Castles may also refer to:

• Castle, Swansea, an electoral ward in Swansea, Wales
• Castle, Oklahoma
• The Castle, Budawang National Park, Australia
• Rook (chess), a chess piece also known as the "castle"
• Castling, a move in chess
• The Smithsonian Institution Building in Washington, D.C., nicknamed "The Castle"
• University College, Durham, commonly known as "castle"
• Operation Castle, a series of nuclear tests conducted in 1954
• Castle Bravo, a thermonuclear device
• GWR 4073 Class, the "Castle" class of steam locomotive
• Castle class corvettes, the follow on to the Flower class corvette of World War Two
• "Castle Networking", a network feature supposed to be introduced in Microsoft Windows Vista, but dropped from the final release
• Castles, a short-lived soap opera, broadcast by the BBC in 1995

The Castle refers to more than one creative work:

• The Castle (Book) (Das Schloß) is a 1922 novel by Franz Kafka
  • The Castle, Definitive Edition, Muir Translation, 1930, 1941 and 1951 English translations based on the Max Brod German Edition
  • The Castle, Critical Edition, Underwood Translation, 1997 English translation based on the Malcolm Pasley Edition
  • The Castle, Critical Edition, Harman Translation, 1998 English translation based on the Malcolm Pasley Edition
• Castle (book), the second book in The Seventh Tower series
• The Castle (film), a 1997 Australian comedy film
• The Castle (game), a videogame made by ASCII corporation