Worton, MD

Worton is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in Kent County, Maryland, United States. The 2010 census counted 249 residents. The Christ Church, Graveyard and Sexton's House complex was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980. Worton is located along Maryland Route 297 at the crossing of the Maryland and Delaware Railroad, 4 miles north of Chestertown, the Kent county seat. Worton is in the Kent County Public Schools. Kent County Middle School is in Chestertown, and Kent County High School is in an unincorporated area, in the Butlertown census-designated place with a Worton postal address. Taken together, these details give a newcomer a usable picture of Worton, where its history, geography, and current gathering places meet. For Worton, the memorable detail is the way older history and current gathering places share one local map. Worton is bordered to the north by Butlertown.