Lapstone

Lapstone is an Australian township on the eastern escarpment of the Blue Mountains in New South Wales at an elevation of 160 metres. Lapstone is located 62 kilometres west of the Sydney CBD in the local government area of the City of Blue Mountains and is part of the federal electorate of Macquarie.

Type: Village with 915 residents
Description: locality in New South Wales, Australia
Also known as: “Lapstone, New South Wales” and “Lapstone, New South Wales, Australia”
Neighbors: Blue Mountains National Park and Glenbrook

Places of Interest

Highlights include Lapstone railway station and Lapstone Oval.

Lapstone railway station

Railway station

Photo: Abesty, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Lapstone railway station is located on the Main Western line in New South Wales, Australia. It serves the Blue Mountains village of Lapstone opening on 24 February 1964.

Lapstone Oval

Lapstone Oval is a sports precinct in Lapstone, New South Wales. It supports sport all year round. The name Lapstone Oval covers all of the 3 different types of sporting facilities and not just the rugby field as is thought by some people.

Lapstone Zig Zag

Photo: Ben Newton, CC BY 2.0.

The Lapstone Zig Zag was a zig zag railway built between Emu Plains and Blaxland stations on the Main Western Line of New South Wales in Australia. Constructed between 1863 and 1865 to overcome an otherwise insurmountable climb up the eastern side of the Blue…

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Glenbrook and Jamisontown.

Glenbrook

Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY 3.0.

Glenbrook is a suburb of 5,000 people in the lower Blue Mountains, west of Sydney. It offers trendy cafes, boutiques, various tourist attractions, weekend markets, recreational opportunities, and native flora and fauna.

Jamisontown

Suburb

Jamisontown is a suburb of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. It is 56 kilometres west of the Sydney central business district, in the local government area of the City of Penrith, and is part of the Greater Western Sydney region. Jamisontown is situated 3 km east of Lapstone.

Penrith

Suburb

Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY 2.0.

Penrith is a suburb in Outer Western Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. It is located 55 kilometres west of the Sydney central business district on the eastern bank of the Nepean River. Penrith is situated 6 km northeast of Lapstone.

Lapstone

Categories: suburb and locality
Location: City of Blue Mountains, New South Wales, Australia, Oceania
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Latitude

-33.77434° or 33° 46′ 28″ south

Longitude

150.64157° or 150° 38′ 30″ east

Population

915

Elevation

179 metres (587 feet)

Open location code

4RRG6JGR+7J

OpenStreetMap ID

node 20968399

OpenStreetMap feature

place=village

GeoNames ID

8349009

Wikidata ID

Q6488407

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Satellite Map

Discover Lapstone from above in high-definition satellite imagery.

In Other Languages

From Basque to Japanese—“Lapstone” goes by many names.

Basque: “Lapstone (Hegoaldeko Gales Berria)”
Basque: “Lapstone”
Chinese: “拉普斯顿”
French: “Lapstone”
Hebrew: “לפסטון, ניו סאות‘ ויילס”
Hebrew: “לפסטון”
Irish: “Lapstone”
Japanese: “ラップストーン”

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