Castle (disambiguation)

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Castles are fortified residences built in Europe and the Middle East in the Middle Ages.

Castle or Castles may refer to:

Places

Europe

• Castle (Colchester electoral ward), an electoral ward in Colchester, England
• Castle (District Electoral Area), Belfast, Northern Ireland
• Castle, Bedford, an electoral ward in Bedford, England
• Castle, Cambridge, a district and electoral ward of the city of Cambridge, England
• Castle, Cardiff, an administrative community in the Welsh capital
• Castle, Leicester, an electoral ward in Leicester, England
• Castle, Newcastle upon Tyne, a ward of the city of Newcastle upon Tyne, England
• Castle, Swansea, an electoral ward in Swansea, Wales
• Newcastle-under-Lyme or Castle

North America

• Castle, Oklahoma, a town in the United States
• Castle Gatehouse, Washington Aqueduct, a 1901 pumping station in Washington, D.C.
• Castle Geyser in the Upper Geyser Basin of Yellowstone
• Smithsonian Castle, Washington, DC, USA

People

• Castle (surname), a surname (and list of people with that name)

Art, entertainment, and media

Games

• Castle (card game), designed by Bruno Faidutti and Serge Laget
• Castle (shogi), a defensive structure used in shogi (Japanese chess)
• Castles (video game), released by Interplay in 1991
• Castling, a move in chess involving the king and rook
• Rook (chess) or castle, a chess piece
• The Castle (video game), an MSX game released by ASCII Corporation in 1986

Literature

• Castle (book), a 1978 book by David Macaulay
• Castle (novel), a 2000 novel by Garth Nix

Music

• Castle (Sherman Chung album), 2008
• Castle (Jolin Tsai album), 2004
• Castle (Halsey song), 2015

Other art, entertainment, and media

• Castle (Chuck), a fictional secret government installation in the TV series Chuck
• Castle (TV series), a 2009 American television series starring Nathan Fillion and Stana Katic

Companies

• Castle (company), a British loudspeaker manufacturer
• Castle Air, a British helicopter charter and sales company
• Castle Building Centres Group Ltd., Canadian retailers of lumber and building materials
• Castle Communications, a record label
• Castle Technology, a British computer company based in Cambridge

Vessels

• Castle class corvettes, the follow on to the Flower class corvette of World War Two
• USS Castle (DD-720), a planned United States Navy destroyer laid down in 1945 but never completed

Other uses

• Aftercastle (or aftcastle, castle, or sterncastle), the stern structure behind the mizzenmast and above the transom on large sailing ships
• Castle Project, an application framework for the .Net platform
• Forecastle (or castle), the upper deck of a sailing ship forward of the foremast
• GWR 4073 Class, the "Castle" class of steam locomotive
• Operation Castle, a series of nuclear tests conducted in 1954
• University College, Durham or Castle

See also

• Castle House (disambiguation)
• Castle River (disambiguation)
• Castle-class (disambiguation)
• The Castle (disambiguation)
• Royal Castle (disambiguation)
• Palace (disambiguation)
• Fortress (disambiguation)
• Fort (disambiguation)