Läyliäinen () is a village in the southern part of the

Loppi Loppi (; Swedish also ) is a municipality in Finland. It is located in the province of Southern Finland and is part of the Tavastia Proper region, located about 50 kilometers (about 30 miles) south of the city of Hämeenlinna. Loppi was founded in ...

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. The village's population is less than 900. The village is crossed by the

Finnish regional road 132 Finnish regional road 132 ( fi, Seututie 132, sv, Regionalväg 132), or Loppi Road ( fi, Lopentie, sv, Loppisvägen) is the road between Highway 3 ( E12) and Highway 54, which starts at the southern end from the border of Vantaa and Nurmijärvi ...

(Mt 132) that runs between the

Loppi church village The Loppi church village (also known as Loppi; fi, Lopen kirkonkylä) is the largest village in the Loppi municipality on the northern shore of Lake Loppi (''Loppijärvi'') in Tavastia Proper, Finland, and also its administrative center with a p ...

and

Klaukkala Klaukkala (; sv, Klövskog , ) is the southern-most urban area ( fi, taajama) of the Nurmijärvi municipality in Uusimaa, Finland, located near Lake Valkjärvi. It is the largest urban area in Nurmijärvi, and despite the fact that it officially ...

. The center of the village was formerly known as ''Talvio''. At that time, the center was about one kilometer from the present center of the village towards

Helsinki Helsinki ( or ; ; sv, Helsingfors, ) is the Capital city, capital, primate city, primate, and List of cities and towns in Finland, most populous city of Finland. Located on the shore of the Gulf of Finland, it is the seat of the region of U ...

, around Soltinmutka. With the

Hyvinkää Hyvinkää (; sv, Hyvinge, ) is a city and municipality of Finland. It is located in the Uusimaa region, approximately north of the capital Helsinki. The city was chartered in 1960. The population of Hyvinkää is (). Its neighboring municipal ...

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Karkkila Karkkila (; sv, Högfors) is a town and a municipality of Finland. Neighboring municipalities are Lohja, Loppi, Tammela and Vihti. Geography Karkkila is located in the Uusimaa region. The municipality has a population of () and it covers an ar ...

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built in 1912, the center of the village moved to its current location. The old station depot and water booth still remind the people of Läyliäinen the history of the village, even though the course was dismantled in 1967. The name Talvio was removed from the addresses and the whole area was renamed Läyliäinen. The village lived its golden age in the 1950s, absorbing the railroad. There were over 1,500 inhabitants and there were two banks, four shops, a dairy, a furniture and leather factory, a movie theater and a guesthouse. But with the dismantling of the railway and the completion of the new

Finnish national road 3 Finnish national road 3 ( fi, Valtatie 3 or '; sv, Riksväg 3) is a highway in Finland between Helsinki and Vaasa via Hämeenlinna and Tampere. The road is long and it is part of the European route E12. of the highway is motorway, connecting He ...

between Helsinki and

Hämeenlinna Hämeenlinna (; sv, Tavastehus; krl, Hämienlinna; la, Tavastum or ''Croneburgum'') is a city and municipality of about inhabitants in the heart of the historical province of Tavastia and the modern province of Kanta-Häme in the south of F ...

in the 1960s, the population of the Läyliäinen began to decline and services shrank. Over the years, Läyliäinen has gained a reputation as a "sleeping suburb along the way". On the bypass along Klaukkala, the southernmost village of

Nurmijärvi Nurmijärvi () is the most populated rural municipality of Finland, located north of the capital Helsinki. The neighboring municipalities of Nurmijärvi are Espoo, Vantaa, Tuusula, Hyvinkää and Vihti, and it is part of the Greater Helsinki. Th ...

, the municipality of Loppi has set high expectations for a new boom in the village's population. Today, Läyliäinen has two

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s ( Sale and K-Market), a hardware and agricultural store, two bars (Bar Barooni and Ketunkolo) which also serves lunch and

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, a post office, one florist's shop, a craft shop, a primary school, a nursery and

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's gas station with a

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hamburger restaurant, a hairdressing salon, a physical grooming service and a taxi. Upper school, high school, pharmacy, health center and

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are approximately 12 kilometers away in the church village of Loppi. In early 2018, the pharmacy's remote service point will also operate at another grocery store. You can order prescription drugs at a remote point and buy, for example,

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s. There is also a forest processing unit of the Forest Research Institute. Until 2000, it was the seat of the Forest Processing Foundation and a breeding establishment. The site has a special breeding park for domestic species of wood.

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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 ...

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Läyliäisten kyläyhdistys ry
- Official Web Site Loppi Villages in Finland {{SouthernFinland-geo-stub

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