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Woodbrook; post village in Baltimore County on the Maryland and Pennsylvania 
Railroad. 
Woodensburg; post village in Baltimore County on the Western Maryland Railr< >ad. 
Woodfield; post village in Montgomery County. 
Woodland; creek, a small tributary of Miles River in Talbot County. 
"Woodland; post village in Talbot County. 
Woodlawn; village in Cecil County. 
Woodmore; post village in Prince George County. 
Woods; point in Worcester County, projecting into St. Martin River. 
Woodsboro; post village in Frederick County on the Northern Central Railway. 
Woodside; post village in Montgomery County on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. 
Woodstock; post village in Howard County on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. 
Woodville; village in Frederick County on the Washington, Potomac and Chesa- 
peake Railroad. 
Woodwardville; post village in Anne Arundel County. 
Woodyard; village in Prince George County. 
Woolford; creek, a small tributary of Little Choptank River in Dorchester County. 
Woolford; neck, a strip of land lying between Woolford Creek and Madison Bay 
in Dorchester County. 
Woolford; post village in Dorchester County. 
Worcester; county, organized in 1742, occupies the extreme southeast corner of the 
State, and comprises the whole of the Maryland ocean front. It is bounded on 
the north by Wicomico County and the State of Delaware, east by the ocean, and 
south by the ocean and Virginia, and west by Pocomoke River. The surface of 
the county is low and level, in some places rising only 5 feet above the sea. 
The Atlantic coast is bordered by sand bars separated from the mainland by 
lagoons known as Assawoman and Sinepuxent bays, having marshy shores. The 
area is 487 square miles, of which more than a third, or 132,549 acres, was under 
cultivation in 1900. The population for the same year was 20,865. The county 
seat is Snow Hill, with a population of 1,576. Other towns are Pocomoke and 
Berlin, with populations of 2,248 and 1,246, respectively. The average magnetic, 
declination in the county in 1900 was 5° 05 / . The rainfall commonly ranges 
between 45 and 50 inches, and the mean annual temperature, between 45° and 50°. 
Worlds End; creek, a small tributary of Charles Creek in Dorchester County. 
Worton; creek, a small tributary to Chesapeake Bay in Kent County. 
Worton; point in Kent County, projecting into Chesapeake Bay. 
Worton; post village in Kent County on the Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washing- 
ton Railroad. 
Wrights; branch, a small tributary of Nanticoke River in Dorchester County. 
Wrights; post village in Dorchester County. 
Wrights; run, a small tributary of Georges Creek in Allegany County. 
Wroten; small, almost entirely marshy island in Honga River in Dorchester County. 
Wroths; point in Cecil County, projecting into Elk River. 
Wye; landing on Wye River in Talbot County. 
Wye; landing on Wye River in Queen Anne County. 
Wye Mills; village in'Talbot County. 
Wye; narrows, a passage connecting Back and Front Wye rivers in Queen Anne 
County. 
Wye; river, a tributary to Eastern Bay in Queen Anne County. 
Wynne; post village in St. Mary County. 
Yellow; branch, a small tributary of Little Gunpowder Falls in Harford County. 
Yellow Springs; village in Frederick County. 
Yeoho; village in Baltimore County. 
