Sandwich
Sandwich is a historic community and also civil church in the Dover Area of Kent, south-east England. It lies on the River Stour and has a population of 4,985. Sandwich was one of the Cinque Ports as well as still has numerous initial middle ages buildings, consisting of several provided pubs as well as entrances in the old town walls, churches, almshouses as well as the White Mill. While when a significant port, it is now two miles from the sea as a result of the disappearance of the Wantsum Channel. Its historical centre has actually been preserved. Sandwich Bay is house to nature reserves and two first-rate golf courses, Royal St George's and Prince's. The community is likewise home to many academic as well as social events. Sandwich also offered its name to the food by way of John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich, and the word sandwich is currently discovered in numerous languages. The local economic climate has benefited from considerable financial investment by Pfizer UK, the British subsidiary of the international pharmaceuticals firm Pfizer, which has actually developed a r & d centre near Sandwich, employing over 3,000 people. Laboratory experiments at the site have actually excited adverse comment by animal rights protestors. On 18 June 2007 Pfizer introduced it will certainly move the Sandwich Animal Health Research (VMRD) department to Kalamazoo, Michigan. Numerous essential medications consisting of Viagra, Pfizer's treatment for impotence as well as Maraviroc, a substance abuse for therapy of HIV, were created below. On 1 February 2011 Pfizer announced that the whole r & d facility at Sandwich would be closed within 18-- 24 months, with a loss of 2,400 tasks, though it later revealed as much as 650 jobs would stay. The College of Kent was taking into consideration use of the school design site. The UK Federal government intervened to establish an 'Enterprise Zone' on the site, which is currently run as a business park called Discovery Park Enterprise Zone.
