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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

• Speedwell, Bristol, England
• Speedwell Castle, Staffordshire, England
• Speedwell Cavern, Derbyshire, England, a former 18th Century lead mine
• Speedwell Mill, 18th century mill in Wirksworth, Derbyshire
• Speedwell Farm, Woburn, Bedfordshire, designed in 1795 by Robert Salmon
• Speedwell Hill, Cheshire, former site of the Bluecap Memorial

United States

• Speedwell, Kentucky, an unincorporated community
• Speedwell, New Jersey, an unincorporated community
• Speedwell, Tennessee, an unincorporated community
• Speedwell, Virginia, an unincorporated community
• Speedwell Township, St. Clair County, Missouri, an inactive township

Falkland Islands

• Speedwell Island 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, from 1771, North Carolina, originally called Speedwell Furnace
• Speedwell Motor Car Company, an early car manufacturer
• Speedwell GT version of the Austin-Healey Sebring Sprite sports car
• Speedwell bicycles, made in Sydney, Australia, from 1882
• Speedwellbus, a former bus company in Manchester, England

Ships

• 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, 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 software
• "Speedwell" whistle, by Henry Arthur Ward
• Speedwell, an 18th-century Thoroughbred racehorse, winner of the 1894 Middle Park Stakes

See also

• Operation Speedwell, a World War II British raid into Italy

• Disambiguation pages
• Place name disambiguation pages