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Overview
In partnership with Big Heritage, the city of Chester in the UK hosted two days of play through a historical lens. They created antique-looking Pokémon GO maps, certificates for Pokémon GO History Explorers, and “PastPorts” to be stamped at key physical locations.
![](https://playfulcity.net/go/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/ChesterRaidCrowd1.png)
More than 15,000 players attended, according to organizers and Niantic. By some estimates, the event it brought £3m in spending power to the city. For a city with a population just shy of 80,000, the interest was considerable.
Selected Pictures
![](https://playfulcity.net/go/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/PoGoHubTweetCrowd2.png)
![](https://playfulcity.net/go/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/ChesterMap3.png)
![](https://playfulcity.net/go/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/ChesterVikings4.png)
![](https://playfulcity.net/go/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/ArticunoCastle5.png)
![](https://playfulcity.net/go/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/ChesterPassport6.png)
![](https://playfulcity.net/go/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/ChesterPassportInside7.png)
Read more:
- Reflections by Dean Paton, Founder of Big Heritage on “Playing with the Past – How Pokémon GO is inspiring people to discover Heritage” on the Niantic blog (January 31, 2018)
- For context on how cities can use Pokémon GO, see our final report. Officially the Chester experiment was outside the scope of our formal report; yet the case has many intersections with the models in the report.
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