Numlahti () is a rural village in the municipality of

Nurmijärvi Nurmijärvi () is a municipality in Finland, located in the southern interior of the country. Nurmijärvi is situated in the Uusimaa region. The population of Nurmijärvi is approximately . It is the most populous Municipalities of Finland, mun ...

, close to the village of Perttula and five kilometers from

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. The Numlahti Manor, which dates back to

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and is the oldest manor of the municipality, is located in Numlahti along the

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road. The lands of the manor were separated after the

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for immigrants who came from

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to be redeemed, thus forming a so-called "karelian village". Between Perttula, Uotila and Numlahti was once lake called Kuhajärvi, which was dried in a field partly in the 1830s and 1850s, and then completely in the 1920s and 1940s. Numlahti has no school of its own, but the pupils go to other schools in the municipality.

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* {{SouthernFinland-geo-stub Nurmijärvi Villages in Uusimaa