Sandwich

Resort and market town in Kent, southeast England, 18 km/11 mi east of Canterbury; population (2001) 4,500. It has many medieval buildings and was one of the original Cinque Ports. Industries include pharmaceutical research and manufacture, and also market gardening. Features include the Guildhall (1578) which now houses a museum, and two town gates, the Barbican and Fisher Gate.

Silting up of the River Stour left the harbour useless by the 16th century. From the 16th century Sandwich prospered as a centre of the cloth industry established by refugee Huguenot cloth workers. It is a golfing centre, with the Royal St George's Golf Club nearby. To the north of the town is the Gazen Salts Nature Reserve, and also nearby to the north are the remains of Richborough Castle, a 3rd-century Roman fort.

Sandwich

Town in southeastern Massachusetts, in Barnstable County, on northwest Cape Cod; population (2000 est) 3,100. An area of beaches, dunes, and cranberry bogs, the town is one of the faster growing residential areas of the Cape. It was incorporated in 1639.

Founded in 1637, Sandwich is the Cape's oldest settlement. From 1827 to 1888 it was the site of the Sandwich Glass Factory, famed for its pressed and lace glass. The Cape Cod Canal's eastern end is in Sandwich.