Canklow
Canklow is a suburb of Rotherham, South Yorkshire, England. Canklow is less than south from Rotherham town centre and approximately north-east from Sheffield city centre. It forms part of the Boston Castle ward for the Metropolitan Borough of Rotherham. History. Canklow was created as a post Second World War council housing area. At the southern end of the estate there was once a coal mine. This was Rotherham Main, or Canklow colliery, opened 1890 and closed in 1954. In 1981 the census revealed a male unemployment rate for Canklow of 42.1%, only just under four times the national  average. From 1983 to 1986 Canklow was one of four areas in South Yorkshire where the Probation Service ran a victim/offender mediation project (one of the first of its kind in the country). The area at the time suffered high unemployment, a heroin problem and a suicide rate well above the high average Landmarks. Canklow Woods Primary School provides primary education, and nearby Oakwood Technology College, secondary. There used to be a church in Canklow, but has now been renovated to a sofa shop.