Sandwich
Sandwich is a historic community and also civil church in the Dover District 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 still has many original middle ages buildings, consisting of a number of detailed pubs and also entrances in the old town wall surfaces, churches, almshouses as well as the White Mill. While once a major port, it is now 2 miles from the sea due to the disappearance of the Wantsum Channel. Its historical centre has been preserved. Sandwich Bay is residence to nature gets and also 2 first-rate fairway, Royal St George's and Prince's. The town is likewise home to numerous academic and social events. Sandwich also provided its name to the food by way of John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich, and words sandwich is now found in numerous languages. The neighborhood economic situation has taken advantage of substantial investment by Pfizer UK, the British subsidiary of the multinational drugs firm Pfizer, which has constructed a r & d centre near Sandwich, employing over 3,000 people. Research laboratory experiments at the site have actually aroused unfavorable remark by animal civil liberties protestors. On 18 June 2007 Pfizer revealed it will certainly relocate the Sandwich Animal Health Research (VMRD) division to Kalamazoo, Michigan. A number of crucial medications including Viagra, Pfizer's therapy for erectile dysfunction and also Maraviroc, a substance abuse for treatment of HIV, were developed here. On 1 February 2011 Pfizer announced that the whole r & d facility at Sandwich would be closed within 18-- 24 months, with a loss of 2,400 tasks, though it later introduced approximately 650 jobs would certainly stay. The College of Kent was thinking about use the campus style site. The UK Government interfered to develop an 'Enterprise Zone' on the site, which is currently run as a business park called Discovery Park Enterprise Zone.
