Martock is a huge village as well as civil parish in Somerset, England, situated on the edge of the Somerset Levels 7 miles (11.3 km) north west of Yeovil in the South Somerset area. The parish includes Hurst, about one mile south of the village, and Bower Hinton, which lies at the western end of the village and also bounded by Hurst and also the A303. Martock has a population of 4,766 and also was traditionally a market town. The church council has obligation for local concerns, consisting of setting a yearly precept (regional price) to cover the council's operating costs and also producing yearly represent public scrutiny. The parish council examines regional preparation applications and works with the local authorities, district council policemans, and also neighbourhood watch teams on matters of criminal offense, protection, and website traffic. The parish council's role also consists of starting projects for the maintenance and repair of parish facilities, as well as talking to the area council on the maintenance, repair, and renovation of freeways, water drainage, walkways, public transport, as well as road cleaning. Preservation issues (consisting of trees and also detailed structures) and also environmental concerns are likewise the obligation of the council. The village drops within the Non-metropolitan district of South Somerset, which was formed on 1 April 1974 under the City Government Act 1972, having formerly belonged to Yeovil Rural Area. The area council is responsible for local preparation as well as structure control, local roadways, council housing, environmental health, markets and fairs, reject collection and also recycling, burial grounds as well as crematoria, leisure services, parks, and also tourist. Somerset County Council is responsible for running the biggest and also most costly regional solutions such as education, social solutions, collections, highways, public transport, policing and also fire services, trading criteria, waste disposal and also tactical planning. A selecting ward exists in the exact same name. Although Martock is one of the most populous location the ward stretches north to Long Lots. The complete population of this ward taken at the 2011 census was 5,724. It is additionally part of the Somerton and also 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 very first past the post system of election, as well as part of the South West England constituency of the European Parliament which elects 7 MEPs making use of the d'Hondt technique of party-list proportional representation.