MVP 2.0
Lichfield Cathedral
AN INTELLIGENT WALK THROUGH A FAMILIAR CITY

Lichfield has been hiding in plain sight.

Choose the time you have and what you are curious about. The evidence stays fixed. The route and the way the story unfolds change around you.

52.6855° N · 1.8303° WLichfield Cathedral · Staffordshire
ONE CITY · MANY READINGS

Not another list of things to see.

Unseen Lichfield is a small, evidence-bound interpretation engine. It connects people, conflict, landscape and architecture to the place directly in front of you.

01

Evidence first

Every historical claim belongs to a source. Uncertainty is preserved rather than polished away.

02

Route intelligence

Time and curiosity change which places matter most. Geography itself is never generated.

03

Ask the place

With Cloudflare Workers AI connected, natural questions are answered only from each stop’s curated evidence.

04

Time as design

Present-day photography becomes a visual timeline without pretending an artistic treatment is a literal reconstruction.

CREATE A READING OF THE CITY

What kind of Lichfield do you want today?

Pick a curiosity first. Duration determines how much of that thread can be followed without padding the walk.

TIME AVAILABLE

How long have you got?

4 places
Stop 1 of 4Hidden Lichfield · 45 min
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WHY THIS PLACE?

VERIFIED Evidence-bound story
TIME LENS

Move this place through time.

visual interpretation
ASK THIS PLACE

Follow your curiosity.

Grounded

Questions are constrained to the evidence attached to this place. With a Cloudflare Workers AI binding, answers are generative; without it, the PWA falls back to its local evidence engine.

THE THREAD CONTINUES

YOUR READING OF LICHFIELD

The route is selected, not invented.

The schematic is intentionally not turn-by-turn navigation. Coordinates are fixed from known locations; the intelligence chooses among them.

CATHEDRAL CLOSE CITY CENTRE STOWE POOL N ↑
UNDER THE SURFACE

This is what the experience is doing.

It does not ask a model to invent a tour of Lichfield. It separates what must be true from what can be adaptive.

01Verified placeFixed coordinates and known physical location
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02Evidence corpusClaims, qualifications, dates and source provenance
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03Route engineCuriosity + duration + coherent walking order
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04InterpretationStory depth, connections and grounded Q&A
AI MAY

Interpret

Explain, connect, simplify, change emphasis and answer within the evidence.

AI MAY NOT

Rewrite reality

Move a landmark, invent an event, erase uncertainty or fabricate a source.

YOUR WALK, READ BACK

You did not see more Lichfield. You noticed more of it.

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EVIDENCE LAYER

Sources

Interpretation can change. Provenance cannot.
ROUTE LOGIC

Why this place appears now.
UNSEEN LICHFIELD · MVP 2.0

An AI-native cultural experience with deliberate boundaries.

The application combines a curated evidence corpus, fixed place data, deterministic route constraints and an optional grounded generative layer. The model is deliberately downstream of the facts.

FACTSAuthoritative local museums, Lichfield Cathedral, Historic England, City Council and Lichfield Historic Parks.
PLACEFixed coordinates. No model is asked where a landmark is.
ROUTEA deterministic selection engine balances theme, duration and coherent walking order.
AICloudflare Workers AI can answer questions from the stop corpus. Failure falls back locally rather than hallucinating.
DESIGNTime Lens uses interpretive treatment of present-day photography. It is never labelled as a literal historical reconstruction.