Sandwich is a historical town as well as civil parish in the Dover Area of Kent, south-east England. It rests on the River Stour and has a population of 4,985. Sandwich was one of the Cinque Ports and also still has many original middle ages buildings, consisting of a number of noted pubs and entrances in the old town walls, churches, almshouses and also the White Mill. While when a significant port, it is now 2 miles from the sea as a result of the loss of the Wantsum Channel. Its historic centre has actually been protected. Sandwich Bay is home to nature books as well as two world-class fairway, Royal St George's and Prince's. The community is also house to many instructional as well as social occasions. Sandwich additionally gave its name to the food using John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich, as well as the word sandwich is currently located in several languages. The neighborhood economic climate has actually taken advantage of considerable financial investment by Pfizer UK, the British subsidiary of the international drugs firm Pfizer, which has developed a research and development centre near Sandwich, employing over 3,000 people. Laboratory experiments at the site have aroused unfavorable comment by pet civil liberties protestors. On 18 June 2007 Pfizer revealed it will certainly relocate the Sandwich Animal Health Research (VMRD) division to Kalamazoo, Michigan. Several vital drugs consisting of Viagra, Pfizer's therapy for erectile dysfunction as well as Maraviroc, a substance abuse for therapy of HIV, were established right here. On 1 February 2011 Pfizer announced that the entire research and development facility at Sandwich would be shut within 18-- 24 months, with a loss of 2,400 tasks, though it later on revealed as much as 650 jobs would remain. The College of Kent was thinking about use of the university design site. The UK Government stepped in to establish an 'Enterprise Zone' on the site, which is now run as a service park called Discovery Park Enterprise Zone.