After the depression of the 1820s and early 1830s there followed a period of agricultural prosperity generally known as High Farming.
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Oldknow shifted his operations to Mellor, where he pursued his interest in high farming as well as running a spinning factory.
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During the prosperous high farming period of the 19th century the most important restoration for over 100 years were undertaken by William Butterfield in the Anglo-catholic style.
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Back in England, he worked in farming and estate management for his uncle in Lincolnshire, describing this lifestyle as "'High Farming,'high church and fox-hunting and so on ."