Westwold is an unincorporated settlement in the Interior of

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. A small farming and logging community, it is located between

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and Vernon on

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. The original name for the settlement was "Grand Prairie", but this was changed in 1925 with the construction of a CNR spur line to Kelowna, to avoid a station name conflict.

Glacial till image:Geschiebemergel.JPG, Closeup of glacial till. Note that the larger grains (pebbles and gravel) in the till are completely surrounded by the matrix of finer material (silt and sand), and this characteristic, known as ''matrix support'', is d ...

s near the townsite of Westwold have provided fossils from the Sangamonian Stage 130,000 years ago.

References

Unincorporated settlements in British Columbia Populated places in the Thompson-Nicola Regional District {{BritishColumbia-geo-stub, Postal code update=V0E 3B1