Lakewood is a

ghost town A ghost town, deserted city, extinct town, or abandoned city is an abandoned settlement, usually one that contains substantial visible remaining buildings and infrastructure such as roads. A town often becomes a ghost town because the economi ...

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, located between

Kalgoorlie Kalgoorlie-Boulder (or just Kalgoorlie) is a city in the Goldfields–Esperance region of Western Australia, located east-northeast of Perth at the end of the Great Eastern Highway. It is referred to as Kalgoorlie–Boulder as the surroundi ...

and

Kambalda Kambalda is a small mining town about from the Kalgoorlie in Western Australia, within the Goldfields. It is split into two townsites apart, Kambalda East and Kambalda West; and is located on the western edge of a giant salt lake, Lake Lefr ...

in the Goldfields-Esperance region of

. Originally the town was known as Lakeside and in 1903 the local progress association lobbied the government for

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lots to be surveyed. The name Lakeside was not considered, as a town in

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with the same name already existed. The name ''Gnumballa'' was considered by the Kalgoorlie Road Board but when the town was gazetted in 1904 it was originally named Ngumballa. The name is Aboriginal in origin and is the local name for Hannan Lake. The name of the railway station, on the

Kalgoorlie to Gnumballa Lake railway line The Kalgoorlie to Gnumballa Lake railway line was a set of state government-owned and WAGR-operated railway lines in the Goldfields–Esperance region of Western Australia. It connected Kalgoorlie to Lakeside, at Gnumballa Lake (now Hannan Lak ...

, remained as Lakeside and by 1909 the name of the town was also changed. Another station near Wiluna was named Lakeside in 1938 so the name of the town was once again changed, this time to Lakewood. The town was not officially renamed until 1947. Timber railways for firewood in the goldfields, were linked to the locality in the early 20th century.Phil Bianchi, Peter Bridge, Ray Tovey (eds) (2008) ''Early woodlines of the Goldfields : the untold story of the woodlines to World War II'' Victoria Park, W.A. : Hesperian Press (Second edition)

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{{authority control Ghost towns of the Goldfields of Western Australia