Sandwich
Sandwich is a historical town as well as civil parish in the Dover Area of Kent, south-east England. It lies on the River Stour and has a population of 4,985. Sandwich was just one of the Cinque Ports and still has many initial middle ages structures, consisting of several listed public houses as well as gates in the old town walls, churches, almshouses as well as the White Mill. While as soon as a major port, it is currently 2 miles from the sea due to the disappearance of the Wantsum Channel. Its historic centre has actually been maintained. Sandwich Bay is residence to nature gets as well as two world-class fairway, Royal St George's as well as Prince's. The town is also residence to several educational as well as social occasions. Sandwich likewise offered its name to the food by way of John Montagu, fourth Earl of Sandwich, and the word sandwich is currently located in numerous languages. The neighborhood economic climate has taken advantage of significant financial investment by Pfizer UK, the British subsidiary of the multinational pharmaceuticals company Pfizer, which has actually developed a research and development centre near Sandwich, employing over 3,000 people. Laboratory experiments at the site have excited negative remark by animal civil liberties lobbyists. On 18 June 2007 Pfizer announced it will certainly relocate the Sandwich Animal Health Research (VMRD) department to Kalamazoo, Michigan. Several vital medications including Viagra, Pfizer's therapy for erectile dysfunction and Maraviroc, a substance abuse for therapy of HIV, were created right here. On 1 February 2011 Pfizer introduced that the entire r & d facility at Sandwich would certainly be shut within 18-- 24 months, with a loss of 2,400 work, though it later on revealed approximately 650 work would certainly remain. The University of Kent was thinking about use the school design site. The UK Government interfered to develop an 'Enterprise Zone' on the site, which is now run as a service park called Discovery Park Enterprise Zone.
