Speedwell may refer to:
Plants
* ''Speedwell'', several plants in the genus ''
Veronica''
Places
Australia
*
Speedwell, Queensland, a locality in the South Burnett Region, Queensland
United Kingdom
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Speedwell, Bristol
Speedwell is an area of east Bristol, Part of the ward. It has a mixture of residential and industrial land.
The 2014 population estimate of the population of Speedwell was 2,342.
The one School in the area is Bristol Brunel Academy, previous ...
, England
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Speedwell Castle
Speedwell Castle is a mid-18th-century house at the centre of Brewood, in Staffordshire, England. Nikolaus Pevsner described it as a "peach" and a "delectable folly", and it stands beside the village market place, at the head of a T-junction on ...
, Staffordshire, England
*
Speedwell Cavern
Speedwell Cavern is one of the four show caves in Castleton, Derbyshire, Castleton, Derbyshire, England.
The cave system consists of a horizontal lead miners' adit (a level passageway driven horizontally into the hillside) below ground leadin ...
, Derbyshire, England, a former 18th Century lead mine
* Speedwell Mill, 18th century mill in
Wirksworth
Wirksworth is a market town and civil parish in the Derbyshire Dales district of Derbyshire, England. Its population was 4,902 in the 2021 United Kingdom census, 2021 census.Area E04002820 (Wirksworth parish) in Table PP002 - Sex, from Wirkswor ...
, Derbyshire
* Speedwell Farm, Woburn, Bedfordshire, designed in 1795 by
Robert Salmon
* Speedwell Hill, Cheshire, former site of the
Bluecap Memorial
United States
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Speedwell, Kentucky, an unincorporated community
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Speedwell, New Jersey, an unincorporated community
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Speedwell, Tennessee, an unincorporated community
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Speedwell, Virginia, an unincorporated community
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Speedwell Township, St. Clair County, Missouri, an inactive township
Falkland Islands
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Speedwell Island
Speedwell Island (formerly Eagle Island; Spanish ''Isla Águila'') is one of the Falkland Islands, lying in the Falkland Sound, southwest of Lafonia, East Falkland.
The island has an area of , measuring approximately from north to south and a ...
in Falkland Sound
Australia
*Speedwell in the vicinity of
Hivesville, Queensland
Manufacturing and vehicles
*
Speedwell Forge, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania
*
Speedwell Ironworks, and Speedwell Village, Morristown, New Jersey
*
Troublesome Creek Ironworks
Troublesome Creek Ironworks, originally called Speedwell Furnace, is a historic iron furnace and archaeological site located near Monroeton, Rockingham County, North Carolina. The ironworks were established by 1770, and remained in operation int ...
, from 1771, North Carolina, originally called Speedwell Furnace
*
Speedwell Motor Car Company
The Speedwell Motor Car Company was a Brass Era car, Brass Era American automobile manufacturing company established by Pierce Schenck, Pierce Davies Schenck that produced cars from 1907 to 1914. The Great Dayton Flood of 1913 greatly damaged th ...
, an early car manufacturer
* Speedwell GT version of the
Austin-Healey Sebring Sprite sports car
*
Speedwell bicycles
Speedwell was a brand of bicycle manufactured by Bennett & Wood, a firm established by Charles W. Bennett and Charles R. Wood in 1882 in Sydney. As motorcars and motorcycles became available Bennett and Wood entered the motor trade. They built an ...
, made in Sydney, Australia, from 1882
*
Speedwellbus
Speedwellbus (formerly Speedwell Private Hire) was a bus operator based in Hyde, Greater Manchester, England. It operated a fleet of 25 buses on commercial and contracted services. Formed in 2002, it ceased operating rather abruptly and unexpect ...
, a former bus company in Manchester, England
Ships
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''Speedwell'' (ship) lists ships with the name ''Speedwell'' including:
**
''Speedwell'' (1577 ship) transported Pilgrims with ''Mayflower''
Fictional characters
* Speedwell, a rabbit
character in the ''Watership Down'' novel
* Mrs Speedwell, a character in
''Tit for Tat'' (1921 film)
* Speedwell, a character in ''
Death Comes to Time
''Death Comes to Time'' is a webcast audio drama based on the long-running British science fiction television series ''Doctor Who'', produced by the BBC and first broadcast in five episodes on the bbc.co.uk, BBCi Cult website from 12 July 2001, ...
'', a Doctor Who-based audio drama
* Mrs Speedwell, a character in
The Glorious Dead (Upstairs, Downstairs)
Music
*"Speedwell" song on the album
''You Need a Mess of Help to Stand Alone'' by Saint Etienne
*Dan B. Speedwell, musician on the album ''
Liberty Belle and the Black Diamond Express'' by The Go-Betweens
Other uses
*Speedwell Weather Limited, a company making
Weather derivative
Weather derivatives are financial instruments that can be used by organizations or individuals as part of a risk management strategy to reduce risk associated with adverse or unexpected weather conditions. Weather derivatives are index-based instr ...
software
*"Speedwell" whistle, by
Henry Arthur Ward
*Speedwell, an 18th-century Thoroughbred racehorse, winner of the 1894
Middle Park Stakes
The Middle Park Stakes is a Group 1 flat horse race in Great Britain open to two-year-old colts. It is run on the Rowley Mile at Newmarket over a distance of 6 furlongs (1,207 metres), and it i ...
See also
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Operation Speedwell, a World War II British raid into Italy
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