Sandwich
Sandwich is a historic town as well as civil church in the Dover Area of Kent, south-east England. It rests on the River Stour and also has a population of 4,985. Sandwich was one of the Cinque Ports and still has lots of original middle ages structures, including a number of provided public houses and entrances in the old town walls, churches, almshouses and also the White Mill. While as soon as a major port, it is currently 2 miles from the sea because of the loss of the Wantsum Channel. Its historic centre has actually been preserved. Sandwich Bay is residence to nature books as well as two world-class golf courses, Royal St George's and also Prince's. The community is likewise residence to several instructional and also social events. Sandwich additionally offered its name to the food by way of John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich, as well as words sandwich is currently discovered in several languages. The regional economic climate has actually benefited from considerable investment by Pfizer UK, the British subsidiary of the multinational pharmaceuticals firm Pfizer, which has constructed a r & d centre near Sandwich, using over 3,000 people. Laboratory experiments at the site have actually excited adverse remark by animal civil liberties activists. On 18 June 2007 Pfizer introduced it will relocate the Sandwich Animal Health Research (VMRD) department to Kalamazoo, Michigan. Several important medicines including Viagra, Pfizer's therapy for impotence and also Maraviroc, a drug used for therapy of HIV, were created right here. On 1 February 2011 Pfizer announced that the entire research and development facility at Sandwich would certainly be shut within 18-- 24 months, with a loss of 2,400 tasks, though it later revealed as much as 650 tasks would stay. The College of Kent was taking into consideration use the school design site. The UK Federal government interfered to develop an 'Enterprise Zone' on the site, which is currently run as a company park called Discovery Park Enterprise Zone.
