Templecombe is a village in Somerset, England, situated on the A357 road five miles southern of Wincanton, 12 miles (19 kilometres) eastern of Yeovil, and 30 miles (48 kilometres) west of Salisbury. The village has a population of 1,560. In addition to the community of Combe Throop it creates the parish of Abbas and Templecombe. The Abbas and also Templecombe parish council has responsibility for local concerns, consisting of setting a yearly mandate (local price) to cover the council's operating costs as well as creating annual accounts for public scrutiny. The parish council reviews neighborhood preparation applications and also works with the local police, district council police officers, as well as area watch groups on matters of criminal activity, security, and website traffic. The parish council's duty likewise includes initiating projects for the maintenance and repair of parish facilities, as well as speaking with the district council on the maintenance, repair work, and also renovation of highways, water drainage, footpaths, public transport, as well as street cleaning. Conservation matters (consisting of trees as well as provided buildings) and also ecological issues are likewise the responsibility of the council. The town drops within the Non-metropolitan district of South Somerset, which was based on 1 April 1974 under the Local Government Act 1972, having previously become part of Wincanton Rural District. The area council is in charge of neighborhood preparation and building control, local roadways, council housing, environmental wellness, markets as well as fairs, reject collection as well as recycling, cemeteries as well as crematoria, leisure services, parks, as well as tourist. Somerset County Council is accountable for running the biggest as well as most costly neighborhood solutions such as education and learning, social services, collections, highways, public transportation, policing and fire services, Trading Standards, garbage disposal as well as strategic preparation. The village falls within the 'Blackmoor Vale' selecting ward. One of the most northerly parish is Mapperton with one of the most southerly being Henstridge. Corton Denham to the west is also consisted of. The overall population of the ward at the 2011 census was 5,450. It is additionally part of the Somerton as well as Frome county constituency represented in your house of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It chooses one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of political election, as well as part of the South West England constituency of the European Parliament which chooses seven MEPs making use of the d'Hondt technique of party-list proportional representation.