castle A castle is a type of fortification, fortified structure built during the Middle Ages predominantly by the nobility or royalty and by Military order (monastic society), military orders. Scholars usually consider a ''castle'' to be the private ...

is a type of fortified structure built during the Middle Ages. Castle or Castles may also refer to:

Arts and entertainment

Games

* ''Castle'' (card game), a shedding card game * Castle, in chess, an informal term for rook **To castle, or

castling Castling is a move in chess. It consists of moving the king (chess), king two squares toward a rook (chess), rook on the same and then moving the rook to the square that the king passed over. Castling is permitted only if neither the king ...

, in chess *

Castle (shogi) In shogi, are strong defensive configurations of pieces that protect the . While the English shogi term "castle" seems to be borrowed from the special castling move in western chess, shogi castles are structures that require making multiple ind ...

, a defensive structure used in the game shogi * ''Castles'' (video game), published in 1991 and 1992

Literature

* ''Castle'' (Macaulay book), a 1977 book by David Macaulay * ''Castle'' (novel), a 2000 novel by Garth Nix

Music

* ''Castle'' (Sherman Chung album), 2008 * ''Castle'' (Jolin Tsai album), 2004 * ''Castles'', an album by

Joy of Cooking ''Joy of Cooking'', often known as "''The Joy of Cooking''", is one of the United States' most-published cookbooks. It has been in print continuously since 1936 and has sold more than 20 million copies. It was published privately during 1931 by ...

(1972) * ''Castle'' (Halsey song), 2015 * ''Castles'' (song), by Freya Ridings (2019) * "Castle", a song by Ateez from the EP '' Golden Hour: Part.3'' (2025) * "Castle", a song by Eminem from the album '' Revival'' (2017) * "Castle", a song by Macklemore & Ryan Lewis from the album ''

The Heist A heist is a robbery or burglary, especially from an institution such as a bank or museum. Heist may also refer to: Places *Heist, Germany, a municipality in Schleswig-Holstein *Heist-aan-Zee, West Flanders, Belgium *Heist-op-den-Berg, Antwerp, ...

'' (2012) * "Castle", a song by SZA from the EP '' S'' (2013)

Other uses in arts and entertainment

* ''Castle'' (TV series), an American TV series, 2009–2016 * ''Castles'' (TV series), a British soap opera, 1995

Businesses

Castle (company) Castle (formerly known as Castle Acoustics) is a British Loudspeaker brand, first established in 1973. Castle Acoustics was founded in 1973 and takes its name and its logo from the 11thC historic Skipton Castle, the North Yorkshire market town ...

, a British loudspeaker manufacturer * Castle Building Centres Group, a Canadian retailers of lumber and building materials *

Castle Communications Castle Communications, also known as Castle Music, was a British independent record label and home video distributor founded in 1983 by Terry Shand, Cliff Dane, and Jon Beecher. Its video imprint was called Castle Vision. The label's producti ...

, a British record label * Castle Technology, a British computer company

People and fictional characters

* Castle (surname), including a list of people and fictional characters with that name

Places

United Kingdom

* Castle (Abergavenny ward), an electoral ward in Monmouthshire, Wales * Castle (Colchester electoral ward), Essex, England *

Castle (District Electoral Area) Castle is one of the ten district electoral areas in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Located in the north of the city, the district elects six members to Belfast City Council and contains the wards of Bellevue, Cavehill, Chichester Park, Duncairn ...

, Belfast, Northern Ireland * Castle (Newham ward), an electoral ward of

Newham London Borough Council Newham London Borough Council also known as Newham Council, is the local authority for the London Borough of Newham in Greater London, England. It is a London borough council, one of 32 in London. The council has been under Labour majority co ...

, Greater London * Castle, Bedford *

Castle, Cambridge Castle is a suburb and Ward (electoral subdivision), electoral ward in Cambridge, England. It is named after the former Cambridge Castle which once stood on Castle Mound. As of the 2021 United Kingdom census, 2021 UK census, the ward had a popu ...

Castle, Cardiff Castle () is a community in the centre of Cardiff, Wales. It includes Cardiff city centre (and Cardiff Castle) as well as the civic buildings of Cathays Park, bordered by the River Taff to the west, the railway to the south and east, Corbett Roa ...

* Castle, Leicester * Castle, Newcastle upon Tyne *

Castle, Swansea Castle () is a community and electoral ward in the City and County of Swansea, Wales. Castle covers most of the heart of the City of Swansea, with Swansea Castle at its centre. Description The electoral ward matches the community boundaries an ...

United States

* Castle, Oklahoma

New Zealand

* Castle River (disambiguation), three rivers

Other uses

Castle Project Castle Project (or Castle for short) is an open-source software, open-source application framework for Common Language Infrastructure, CLI platform implementations (e.g., .NET Framework). It was released on November 6, 2014. The project was founde ...

, a computer application framework *

Operation Castle Operation Castle was a United States series of high-yield (high-energy) nuclear tests by Joint Task Force 7 (JTF-7) at Bikini Atoll beginning in March 1954. It followed ''Operation Upshot–Knothole'' and preceded '' Operation Teapot''. Con ...

, a series of nuclear tests in 1954 * Castle class (disambiguation), ship and railway classes * USS ''Castle'' (DD-720), an uncompleted United States Navy destroyer *

University College, Durham University College, informally known as Castle, is the oldest constituent college of Durham University in England. Centred on Durham Castle on Palace Green, it was founded in 1832 by William van Mildert, Bishop of Durham. As a constituent ...

, England, known informally as Castle