Sandwich
Sandwich is a historical town and civil parish in the Dover District of Kent, south-east England. It lies on the River Stour as well as has a population of 4,985. Sandwich was one of the Cinque Ports as well as still has numerous initial medieval structures, consisting of a number of noted public houses and entrances in the old town wall surfaces, churches, almshouses as well as the White Mill. While when a significant port, it is currently two miles from the sea as a result of the disappearance of the Wantsum Channel. Its historical centre has been maintained. Sandwich Bay is residence to nature reserves and also two first-rate golf links, Royal St George's and Prince's. The community is additionally residence to lots of educational and also cultural events. Sandwich additionally provided its name to the food using John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich, and also the word sandwich is now discovered in a number of languages. The neighborhood economic situation has actually benefited from substantial investment by Pfizer UK, the British subsidiary of the multinational pharmaceuticals business Pfizer, which has constructed a research and development centre near Sandwich, using over 3,000 people. Laboratory experiments at the site have actually excited adverse comment by pet rights lobbyists. On 18 June 2007 Pfizer introduced it will relocate the Sandwich Animal Health Research (VMRD) department to Kalamazoo, Michigan. Several crucial drugs including Viagra, Pfizer's treatment for impotence and Maraviroc, a drug used for therapy of HIV, were created here. On 1 February 2011 Pfizer announced that the whole research and development center at Sandwich would be closed within 18-- 24 months, with a loss of 2,400 jobs, though it later on revealed as much as 650 jobs would stay. The University of Kent was thinking about use of the university design site. The UK Government intervened to develop an 'Enterprise Zone' on the site, which is currently run as a company park called Discovery Park Enterprise Zone.
