page_title: Overton-on-Dee
section_title: St Mary the Virgin Church and its yew trees
hierarchical_section_title: Overton-on-Dee / St Mary the Virgin Church and its yew trees
caption_attribution_description: English: St Mary the Virgin Churh in Overton-on-Dee
context_page_description: Overton or Overton-on-Dee is a small town and a local government community, the lowest tier of local government, part of Wrexham County Borough in Wales. It is situated close to the Welsh-English border on the edge of an escarpment that winds its way around the course of the River Dee, from which Overton-on-Dee derives its name.
  The community of Overton, which also includes the village of Lightwood Green and a number of small hamlets, had a total population of 1,276 at the 2001 census, increasing to 1,382 at the 2011 Census.
context_section_description: The churchyard of St Mary the Virgin dominates the high street and is famous for twenty-one very ancient yew trees.  The yew trees are traditionally one of the Seven Wonders of Wales and are commemorated in an anonymously written rhyme:
  Pistyll Rhaeadr and Wrexham steeple,
  Snowdon's mountain without its people,
  Overton yew trees, St Winefride wells,
  Llangollen bridge, and Gresford bells.
  At 1,500 to 2,000 years old, the oldest tree predates the church, whose earliest stonework is probably Norman.  In 1992 the village celebrated the 700th anniversary of the granting of a Royal Charter to Overton by Edward I in 1292 with a royal visit from the present Queen who planted a new yew tree.
caption: St Mary the Virgin Church which dominates the high street
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