To celebrate the millennium, the inhabitants of Waresley did something a bit different. Rather than a bench, copse of trees, etc. they erected a standing stone, giving details of the village in 2000.
Its location is right by the entrance to the graveyard at the former site of the parish church of St. James the Great. This was destroyed by "a tempest" in 1724 and rebuilt, but was replaced by a new church in the centre of the village in 1856. There is a magnificent stone cross in the graveyard, marking the site of the former church which is well worth a visit.
