Lappila is a village of Kärkölä municipality in Päijänne Tavastia, Finland. Its population is about 600. The village is located along the Riihimäki–

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 regional trains 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 ar ...

. 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

primary school A primary school (in Ireland, the United Kingdom, Australia, Trinidad and Tobago, Jamaica, and South Africa), junior school (in Australia), elementary school or grade school (in North America and the Philippines) is a school for primary e ...

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 sports association 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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