Castle Rock

Castle Rock

=Towns=

Northern Ireland

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

India

* Castle Rock, Karnataka

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.

Canada

*Castle Rock, British Columbia, a community on the west bank of the Fraser River between the cities of Williams Lake (S) and Quesnel (N)

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 (coord|37|0|54|N|111|27|18|W|) in *Castle Rock (volcano), a volcano in British Columbiaat Glen Canyon National Recreation Area. Depending on the water level of Lake Powell it is sometimes an island.
*Castle Rock (volcano), a volcano in British Columbia
*Castle Rock, Waikato, an old volcano on New Zealand's Coromandel Peninsula
*Castle Rock, Canterbury, a prominent rock outcrop on New Zealand's Banks Peninsula

Islands

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

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.
*Castel Rock An Jazz Album By Johnny Hodges)
*Castle Rock Entertainment, a film production company founded by Rob Reiner and named after Stephen King's fictional town.
*Castle Rock (Garrison, New York) is a historic house in the Hudson Highlands.
*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.
*Castle Rock Hoodoos Provincial Park, near Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada


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