Castle (disambiguation) facts for kids

A castle is a fortified structure used to defend a territory.

Castle or Castles can mean:

• University College, Durham, commonly known as "castle"
• Operation Castle, a series of nuclear tests conducted in 1954
  • Castle Bravo, its first test
• GWR 4073 Class, the "Castle" class of steam locomotive
• Castle class corvettes, the follow on to the Flower class corvette of World War Two
• Castles (estate agents), in the UK
• Castle Project, an application framework for the .Net platform
• Castle Building Centres Group Ltd., Canadian retailers of lumber and building materials

Places

• Castle, Bedford, an electoral ward in Bedford, England
• Castle, Swansea, an electoral ward in Swansea, Wales
• Castle, Oklahoma, a town
• Castle Geyser in the Upper Geyser Basin of Yellowstone
• Smithsonian Institution Building, in Washington, D.C., nicknamed "The Castle"
• Newcastle-under-Lyme, known simply as "castle" to many local people

Entertainment

• Rook (chess), a chess piece sometimes (formerly or informally) known as the "castle"
  • Castling, a move in chess involving the Rook
• Castle (card game)
• Castles (video game), released by Interplay in 1991
• Castles II: Siege and Conquest, a 1992 sequel to the above game
• Castle Communications, a record label
• Castles (soap opera), a short-lived soap opera, broadcast by the BBC in 1995

The Castle may also refer to:

• The Castle (novel) (Das Schloß) is a 1922 novel by Franz Kafka and its translations
• Castle (novel), 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
• The Castle (radio series), 2007 BBC radio comedy set in the Middle Ages
• The Castle, Budawang National Park, Australia
• CASTLE fight, a computational tool used in game theory

See also

In Spanish: Castle (desambiguación) para niños