Canklow
It forms part of the Boston Castle ward for the Metropolitan Borough of Rotherham.Canklow was created as a post Second World War council housing area.[1] At the southern end of the estate there was once a coal mine, Rotherham Main Colliery.[2] In 1981 the census revealed a male unemployment rate for Canklow of 42.1%, just under four times the national average.[3] 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).