sweet home winchester

Almost nobody knows where our hometown of Winchester is located. It's a very small, old town and we live at the southernmost end of it. All the pictures I've compiled below are from either wikipedia or city-data. We have actually had only one occasion where we needed to go in to town which was to visit the post office and pick up our mailbox key. Other than that, we just drive through Winchester on our way to Palm Springs or Apple Valley. I thought I would share about our itty-bitty little town here. After all, It's only fair that I represent our current neighborhood because I just posted about our old beach hometown of Encinitas.

According to the 2010 census, the population of Winchester was actually 2,534. Winchester experienced rapid growth in french valley (where we live) during the housing boom in the early to mid 2000s. Information courtesy of wikipedia.

Here's the post office where we had to go pick up our mail key.

The Winchester "town center" consists of a florist, a market, liquor store, and bar. Like I said, pretty small town.

Another view of the Winchester town center.

Probably the most notable building in the city of Winchester is this one below.

Yup, that was it. You just got the tour of downtown Winchester, California. Hope you enjoyed it! Everything we do as far as work, church, play, shop, eat, entertainment, etc. happens in either Murrieta or Temecula. Even our schools are zoned for the Temecula Valley School District. That was a huge must for me when we were house-hunting! This just may be the first and last time that I talk about Winchester. Now you know why.