Speedwell is an area of east Bristol, Part of the Hillfields ward.

[2] The Speedwell area had many small coal mines in the 19th century.

A goods only railway connected the collieries and the Peckett and Sons locomotive works (also known as the Atlas Locomotive Works) with the Midland railway at Kingswood junction.

[5] In the early 1970s, shortly after Avon county council was formed, approximately half of Speedwell secondary school burnt down, the school was partly rebuilt.

[6] The following suburbs are in the same urban area, but lie in South Gloucestershire or North Somerset: