Winchester Park is a neighborhood in Northeast Philadelphia

Northeast Philadelphia

Northeast Philadelphia, nicknamed Northeast Philly, the Northeast and the Great Northeast, is a section of the city of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. According to the 2000 Census, the Northeast has a sizable percentage of the city's 1.547 million people — a population of between 300,000 and 450,000,...

. It is located in the vicinity of Pennypack Park

Pennypack Park

Pennypack Park is a municipal park, part of Philadelphia's Fairmount Park system, in Northeast Philadelphia in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. Established in 1905 by ordinance of the City of Philadelphia, it includes about of woodlands, meadows and wetlands. The Pennypack Creek runs through the...

, north of Holmesburg.

It is primarily a neighborhood of single family homes, south of Welsh Road, built between 1947- 1955, and twin homes north of Welsh Road, built around 1960. St Jerome R.C. Church, at Lenola and Stamford Streets, is the parish that serves the area.