Lappila is a village of

Kärkölä Kärkölä () is a municipality of Finland. It is located in the province of Southern Finland and is part of the Päijänne Tavastia region. The municipality has a population of () and covers an area of of which is water. The population density ...

municipality in Päijänne Tavastia, Finland. Its population is about 600. The village is located along the

Riihimäki Riihimäki (literally "Drying barn hill") is a town and municipality in the south of Finland, about north of Helsinki and southeast of Tampere. An important railway junction is located in Riihimäki, since railway tracks from Riihimäki lead to ...

–

Lahti Lahti (; sv, Lahtis) is a city and municipality in Finland. It is the capital of the region of Päijänne Tavastia (Päijät-Häme) and its growing region is one of the main economic hubs of Finland. Lahti is situated on a bay at the southern e ...

railway, along which VR's

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stop at

Lappila railway station The Lappila railway station ( fi, Lappilan rautatieasema, sv, Lappila järnvägsstation) is located in Kärkölä, Finland, in the village and urban area of Lappila. It is located along the Riihimäki–Lahti line, and its neighboring stations a ...

. From the north, Lappila is bypassed by the main road 54, on the north side of which the Teuronjoki River flows near Lappila. Lappila is the youngest of the villages of Kärkölä, inhabited only in the 16th and 17th centuries, being before that Vanaja' hunting ground; in the Kalmberg map of 1855–1856, the village is mentioned as "Lappila by" and there are three houses. A

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was built in Lappila in the 1890s and opened in 1898. Teaching was transferred in 1951 to a new stone school, which was closed in 2012. The wooden school later housed a

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. In 1934, the Lappilinna

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was built in the village. A local

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called Lappila Nousu has been organizing the Finnish

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Championships since 2015.

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Lappila
Official Site (in Finnish) Kärkölä Villages in Finland {{SouthernFinland-geo-stub

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