Speedwell
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Speedwell may refer to:
Plants
[edit]- Speedwell, several plants in the genus Veronica
Places
[edit]Australia
[edit]- Speedwell, Queensland, a locality in the South Burnett Region, Queensland
United Kingdom
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 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
[edit]- Speedwell Island in Falkland Sound
Australia
[edit]- Speedwell in the vicinity of Hivesville, Queensland
Manufacturing and vehicles
[edit]- 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
[edit]- Speedwell (ship) lists ships with the name Speedwell including:
- Speedwell (1577 ship) transported Pilgrims with Mayflower
Fictional characters
[edit]- 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
[edit]- "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
[edit]- 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
[edit]- Operation Speedwell, a World War II British raid into Italy