Sandwich
Sandwich is a historic community as well as civil parish in the Dover Area of Kent, south-east England. It pushes the River Stour and also has a population of 4,985. Sandwich was among the Cinque Ports as well as still has lots of initial medieval structures, including a number of detailed public houses and gates in the old town wall surfaces, churches, almshouses and also the White Mill. While as soon as a major port, it is currently two miles from the sea because of the loss of the Wantsum Channel. Its historic centre has actually been protected. Sandwich Bay is home to nature reserves and two world-class golf courses, Royal St George's and also Prince's. The town is likewise residence to numerous educational and cultural occasions. Sandwich additionally gave its name to the food by way of John Montagu, fourth Earl of Sandwich, and also the word sandwich is now found in several languages. The local economic situation has actually benefited from considerable financial investment by Pfizer UK, the British subsidiary of the multinational pharmaceuticals firm Pfizer, which has actually developed a research and development centre near Sandwich, using over 3,000 people. Research laboratory experiments at the site have aroused negative comment by animal rights lobbyists. On 18 June 2007 Pfizer introduced it will certainly relocate the Sandwich Animal Health Research (VMRD) department to Kalamazoo, Michigan. Several crucial medications including Viagra, Pfizer's therapy for impotence and also Maraviroc, a substance abuse for treatment of HIV, were created right here. On 1 February 2011 Pfizer announced that the whole r & d center at Sandwich would certainly be closed within 18-- 24 months, with a loss of 2,400 tasks, though it later on introduced approximately 650 work would stay. The College of Kent was thinking about use of the campus style site. The UK Federal government stepped in to develop an 'Enterprise Zone' on the site, which is currently run as a business park called Discovery Park Enterprise Zone.
