Canklow is a
suburb
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of
Rotherham
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,
South Yorkshire
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,
England
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. Canklow is less than south from Rotherham town centre and approximately north-east from
Sheffield
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city centre. It forms part of the Boston Castle ward for the
Metropolitan Borough of Rotherham
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.
History
Canklow was created as a post Second World War
council housing
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area. At the southern end of the estate there was once a coal mine,
Rotherham Main Colliery. The mine opened in 1890 and closed in 1954.
In 1981 the census revealed a male unemployment rate for Canklow of 42.1%, just under four times the national average.
From 1983 to 1986 Canklow was one of four areas in
South Yorkshire
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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
[Yorkshire Post 20 May 1985 'The Heroin Nightmare'. identified a house in Warden Street, Canklow as a major source of heroin dealing. In the space of just seven months during 1985 Canklow was the site of three separate suicides (Williams (1997) op cit page 277]
Landmarks
Education in the local area is provided by Canklow Woods Primary School and
Oakwood High School.
There was a church in Canklow, but has now been converted to a sofa shop.
External links
Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council
References
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Geography of Rotherham