Speedwell may refer to:
Plants
* ''Speedwell'', several plants in the genus ''
Veronica''
Places
Australia
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Speedwell, Queensland
Speedwell is a rural locality in the South Burnett Region, Queensland, Australia. In the , Speedwell had a population of 42 people.
Geography
The Okeden Byanda Road enters the locality from the south ( Okeden) and runs north through the locali ...
, 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
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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
Robert Salmon (1775 – ) was a maritime artist, active in both England and America. Salmon completed nearly 1,000 paintings, all save one of maritime scenes or seascapes. He is widely considered the Father of American Luminism.
Early lif ...
* Speedwell Hill, Cheshire, former site of the
Bluecap Memorial
The Bluecap Memorial stands in the yard of the Cheshire Hunt Kennels in Kennel Lane, Sandiway, Cheshire, England. Bluecap was a Cheshire foxhound that was famous for winning a race against the hounds of Hugo Meynell of the Quorn Hunt in 1763. Th ...
United States
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Speedwell, Kentucky
Speedwell is an unincorporated community located in Madison County, Kentucky, United States. A post office was opened for the community in 1852, and closed in 1939. It is located at the junction of Kentucky Route 374 and Kentucky Route 499.
...
, 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
Speedwell is an unincorporated community in Wythe County, Virginia, United States. Speedwell Is famous for 'Cave Hill', a cave in the side of the mountain. Speedwell has been known to be called Speedville.
The Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church C ...
, an unincorporated community
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Speedwell Township, St. Clair County, Missouri
Speedwell Township is an inactive township in St. Clair County, in the U.S. state of Missouri
Missouri (''see #Etymology and pronunciation, pronunciation'') is a U.S. state, state in the Midwestern United States, Midwestern region of the ...
, 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
Hivesville is a rural town and Suburbs and localities (Australia), locality in the South Burnett Region, Queensland, Australia. In the , the locality of Hivesville had a population of 173 people.
Geography
The town is located on the Proston-W ...
Manufacturing and vehicles
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Speedwell Forge
Speedwell Forge Mansion, also known as Speedwell Forge Homestead, is a historic home located at Elizabeth Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, Elizabeth Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. The ironmaster's mansion was built about 1760, ...
, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania
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Speedwell Ironworks, and Speedwell Village, Morristown, New Jersey
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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
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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
The Austin-Healey Sebring Sprite is a small sports car that was produced by the Donald Healey Motor Company at its Cape Works in Warwick and at the Healey's Speed Equipment Division in Grosvenor Street, London W1. Sebring Sprites were also produ ...
sports car
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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
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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:
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''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)
"The Glorious Dead" is the eighth episode of the fourth series of the period drama '' Upstairs, Downstairs''. It was first broadcast on 2 November 1974 on ITV.
Background
"The Glorious Dead" was filmed on 11 and 12 July 1974. While Elizabeth J ...
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
''Liberty Belle and the Black Diamond Express'', the fourth album by The Go-Betweens, was released in March 1986 in the UK on Beggars Banquet Records, the record label that would release the remainder of the original group's LPs through their bre ...
'' 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
*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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