Castle Rock

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Contents 1 Towns 1.1 Northern Ireland 1.2 India 1.3 United States 2 Mountains 3 Islands 4 Misc.

[edit] Towns

[edit] Northern Ireland

• Castlerock a town between Portstewart and Derry in Northern Ireland.
• Castlerock railway station

[edit] India

• Castle Rock, Karnataka

[edit] United States

Several towns in the United States are named "Castle Rock":

• Castle Rock, Colorado
• Castle Rock, Washington
• Castle Rock, Wisconsin
• Castle Rock Township, Minnesota
• Castle Rock, South Dakota (north of Newell in Butte County) the geographic center of the 50 United States

There is also Castle Rock, Maine, a fictional town used by Stephen King as the setting for a number of his works.

[edit] Mountains

Castle Rock is also the name of several mountains and rock outcroppings:

• Castle Rock, Edinburgh, Scotland, the original after which the others were named by Scottish emigrants
• Castle Rock State Park, in the Santa Cruz Mountains, used by residents of the San Francisco Bay Area for rock climbing practice
• Castle Rock State Park, in the Rock River valley
• Castle Rock, a tourist attraction with steps for climbing about 5 miles north of St. Ignace, Michigan
• Castle Rock, near Leavenworth, Washington, a popular climbing destination, first climbed in 1957 by Fred Beckey, Dave Collins, and Don Gordon
• Castle Rock, an Oriskany sandstone outcrop near Forks of Cacapon in Hampshire County, West Virginia
• Castle Rock (South Shetland Islands)
• Castle Rock (Antarctica), near McMurdo Station
• Castle Rock, Western Australia in the Porongurup Range
• Castle Rock, Kansas near the town of Quinter in north western Kansas
• Castle Rock ( 37°0′54″N, 111°27′18″W) in Kane County, Utah at Glen Canyon National Recreation Area. Depending on the water level of Lake Powell it is sometimes an island.

[edit] Islands

• Castle Rock is the name of an island in the U.S. state of Massachusetts.

[edit] Misc.

The name Castle Rock has also had various other uses:

• Castle Rock, Maine, the fictional town in use by many Stephen King novels, stories, and novellas.
• Castle Rock Entertainment, a film production company founded by Rob Reiner and named after Stephen King's fictional town.
• Castle Rock Winery, a winery in California.
• Castle Rock Brewery is a U.K. microbrewery located in Nottingham, owned and operated by the Tynemill pub chain.
• Castle Rock, a monthly newsletter about Stephen King published from January 1985 through December 1989. It was edited by Christopher Spruce, King's brother in law.
• Castle Rock (螺洲白排) is an island of Hong Kong, part of the Po Toi group.
• Castle Rock is a fictional mountain fort in the William Golding novel Lord of the Flies.
• Castell Rock (Welsh for Castle Rock) is a Welsh festival.
• Castle Rock State Park, the name of two state parks in California and Illinois in the United States.
• Castle Rock is part of the double A-side Cut Some Rug/Castle Rock single by UK band The Bluetones.