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Despite lacking a railway station, and despite its relative distance from the M4 and M40, Benson is today a thriving commuter village, with a Church of England primary school ( separate primary and junior schools recently combined, allowing one to be sold off for housing development ), a pre-school, a doctor's surgery, two public houses including 18th century coaching inn The Crown Inn and The Three Horseshoes ( down from five since 1990-the closed ones having become private homes ) and about a dozen small shops, including a supermarket and a dispensing chemist.
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Despite nineteenth century efforts to connect the town to the expanding railway network the North Staffordshire Railway received an act of parliament to build a branch line from Stowe-by-Chartley which was never taken advantage of.
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