Collington, Maryland
Overview
 
Collington, Maryland is a now defunct settlement in Prince George's County, Maryland
Prince George's County, Maryland
Prince George's County is a county located in the U.S. state of Maryland, immediately north, east, and south of Washington, DC. As of 2010, it has a population of 863,420 and is the wealthiest African-American majority county in the nation....

 dating from colonial times
Province of Maryland
The Province of Maryland was an English and later British colony in North America that existed from 1632 until 1776, when it joined the other twelve of the Thirteen Colonies in rebellion against Great Britain and became the U.S...

. Collington has been subsumed by the city of Bowie
Bowie, Maryland
Bowie is a city in Prince George's County, Maryland, United States. The population was 54,727 at the 2010 census. Bowie has grown from a small railroad stop to the largest municipality in Prince George's County, and the fifth most populous city and third largest city by area in the state of...

, Maryland
Maryland
Maryland is a U.S. state located in the Mid Atlantic region of the United States, bordering Virginia, West Virginia, and the District of Columbia to its south and west; Pennsylvania to its north; and Delaware to its east...

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Collington is located at 38°58'6" North, 76°45'35" West (38.9684441 -76.7596914).

Collington stretched from the area near Holy Trinity Episcopal Church
Holy Trinity Episcopal Church (Bowie, Maryland)
Holy Trinity Episcopal Church in Bowie, Maryland was established in 1836 when it became independent of Queen Anne Parish.-History:On December 17, 1717, Reverend Jacob Henderson was appointed as rector of Queen Anne Parish. That same year, he acquired numerous parcels of property through his...

 on MD 450 East toward the Belair Mansion
Belair Mansion
The Belair Mansion, located in Collington, Maryland, United States, was built in circa 1745 as the Georgian plantation home of the Provincial Governor of Maryland, Samuel Ogle...

, south to where MD 197, also called Collington Road, ends at US 301 and west past Church Road.
Originally referred to as "Collington Hundreds", the settlement was more recently known as "Collington".
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You may well reap the benefit, Edmund, but are you truly prepared to be despised within the department?

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