Sandwich is a historical community and civil church in the Dover District of Kent, south-east England. It lies on the River Stour and has a population of 4,985. Sandwich was one of the Cinque Ports and still has lots of initial middle ages structures, consisting of a number of listed public houses and entrances in the old town walls, churches, almshouses as well as the White Mill. While once a significant port, it is currently two miles from the sea because of the disappearance of the Wantsum Channel. Its historical centre has actually been maintained. Sandwich Bay is residence to nature books and two first-rate fairway, Royal St George's as well as Prince's. The town is additionally home to several educational and also social occasions. Sandwich also provided its name to the food by way of John Montagu, fourth Earl of Sandwich, and also the word sandwich is currently located in several languages. The local economic situation has actually taken advantage of considerable investment by Pfizer UK, the British subsidiary of the international drugs business Pfizer, which has built a research and development centre near Sandwich, employing over 3,000 individuals. Laboratory experiments at the site have actually excited adverse remark by pet legal rights protestors. On 18 June 2007 Pfizer announced it will certainly move the Sandwich Animal Health Research (VMRD) division to Kalamazoo, Michigan. Several important medicines including Viagra, Pfizer's treatment for erectile dysfunction and also Maraviroc, a drug used for therapy of HIV, were created right here. On 1 February 2011 Pfizer introduced that the whole research and development facility at Sandwich would certainly be shut within 18-- 24 months, with a loss of 2,400 jobs, though it later introduced as much as 650 work would remain. The University of Kent was taking into consideration use of the campus style site. The UK Government intervened to develop an 'Enterprise Zone' on the site, which is currently run as a business park called Discovery Park Enterprise Zone.