sentences:  The section of the river below the reservoir is used for Whitewater kayaking when water is released by Yorkshire Water.In the novel "In a Dry Season" by the English-born, Canadian-based crime writer Peter Robinson, the fictional village of Hobb's End, flooded by the creation of the Thornfield Reservoir, is exposed during a drought, leading to the discovery of a body.The geography described by Robinson indicates that he based the location of Hobb's End on the village of West End.