Bishopville Home for Rent

Bishopville offers a rural setting less than 15 miles west of the touristy Ocean City beach. Poultry farms and rolling grain crops make up most of this Worcester County community, while high-rise condos, a bustling boardwalk and miles of white sandy beach sit just across Assawoman Bay. It's this dynamic location that attracts most homebuyers. “People here love being so close to the beach, but they also like being able to come home and not deal with the craziness of Ocean City,” says Bill Foard, a Bishopville resident and a paramedic at the Bishopville Volunteer Fire Department. Though the area occasionally experiences heavy traffic, locals can enjoy peaceful activities like boating through cordgrass-covered marshland and playing golf at the public Lighthouse Sound course. “People just drive right past Bishopville on their way to Ocean City, so nobody realizes it’s actually a really pretty town with quite a bit to do,” Foard says. Bishopville’s oldest homes include farmhouses dating back to the early 1900s. Ranch styles from the mid-20th century and New Traditionals built throughout the ‘80s and 2000s are also common. The median lot size is a half-acre, but working farms typically