Jesmond Dene, California
Jesmond Dene is an unincorporated community neighboring Escondido in San Diego County, California. It lies just east of Interstate 15 north of Escondido and has a ZIP Code of 92026 (as assigned to Escondido). The community is inside area code 760. It was named after the Jesmond Dene park in Newcastle upon Tyne. History Jesmond Dene was established as a subdivision of a growing Escondido in the 1920s. The subdivision was created by the W. F. Moore company in 1926 with a investment to create a suburban tract in Moosa Canyon. The new tract had tennis courts, a dance hall, and horseshoe courts. A creek in the area was dammed to create a swimming pool for residents. All of the amenities of the area were free to use for lodgers who constructed their home on one of the tract's 750 plots, each being 80 by 100 feet in dimension. The grand opening of Jesmond Dene took place on November 14, 1926. The Desmond Jene post office opened on February 16, 1933, but only lasted until January 31, 1935, when it was moved to Escondido. For many years, the neighborhood had tall stone gateposts at its entrance on Jesmond Dene Road,