Westwood is a rural locality of the Shire of Woodanilling in the Great Southern region of Western Australia.

[clarify][4][5][6] The heritage listed Marracoonda Baptist Church, located in the far south-eastern corner of Westwood, on the Great Southern Highway, straddles the border to the neighbouring Shire of Katanning and the locality of Marracoonda.

[7][8] The site of the Westwood School, in the north-west of the locality, is also listed on the shire's heritage register.

It was constructed in 1912 as the Dowlering School and officially opened on 13 April 1913 but moved to the Westwood site in 1918.

[9] The Strathmore Hill Nature Reserve was gazetted on 5 May 1989, has a size of 1.71 square kilometres (0.66 sq mi), and is located within the Avon Wheatbelt bioregion.