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Westville is a borough in Gloucester County, New Jersey, at the northern tip of the county across the Delaware River from Philadelphia.

Westville is known as "The Gateway to South Jersey," a nickname reflected in its official motto, because Delsea Drive, Broadway and Crown Point Road all converge there on the way to points across South Jersey.

Westville was formed as a borough by an act of the New Jersey Legislature on April 7, 1914, from portions of Deptford Township and West Deptford Township, after the residents of the villages of Westville, Newbold and Victoria voted to merge in a referendum on April 28, 1914, and it was reincorporated on March 8, 1924.

The borough is named for Thomas West, and the Thomas West House on River Drive, built around 1746, still stands as one of Westville's oldest homes.

The 2020 United States census counted 4,264 people in Westville, nearly unchanged from 4,288 in 2010 but below the borough's peak of 5,170 residents in 1970.

The 2020 census counted 1,754 households in Westville, where the median age was 40.1 years.

Westville sits along Big Timber Creek near the Delaware River, and a 1656 Dutch map indicates that Fort Nassau, the first Dutch fort on the Delaware, stood on the creek's south bank, probably within the borough's present boundaries.

In 1776, Thomas West's son Charles donated 40 fifty-foot logs cut from his property to build the chevaux-de-frise, the underwater fortification sunk in the Delaware River to block British shipping from reaching Philadelphia.

The borough's principal park, built around a pond improved by a federal WPA project in 1940, is the site of Westville's veterans memorials and public patriotic ceremonies.

For seventh through twelfth grade, public school students from Westville attend Gateway Regional High School in Woodbury Heights, a regional school that also serves National Park, Wenonah and Woodbury Heights.