Templecombe is a village in Somerset, England, located on the A357 road five miles southern of Wincanton, 12 miles (19 kilometres) eastern of Yeovil, and also 30 miles (48 km) west of Salisbury. The village has a population of 1,560. Along with the hamlet of Combe Throop it forms the parish of Abbas as well as Templecombe. The Abbas and also Templecombe parish council has obligation for local concerns, including establishing a yearly principle (regional rate) to cover the council's operating costs and also creating annual accounts for public scrutiny. The parish council evaluates neighborhood planning applications and also deals with the neighborhood police, district council police officers, as well as area watch teams on issues of criminal activity, security, and website traffic. The parish council's duty also consists of starting jobs for the maintenance and repair of parish facilities, in addition to talking to the area council on the upkeep, repair service, and also improvement of highways, drainage, walkways, public transportation, and road cleaning. Conservation matters (consisting of trees and also detailed structures) as well as ecological problems are likewise the responsibility of the council. The village falls 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 accountable for neighborhood planning and also structure control, regional roadways, council housing, ecological wellness, markets and fairs, refuse collection and recycling, burial grounds as well as crematoria, leisure services, parks, as well as tourism. Somerset County Council is responsible for running the biggest and also most expensive neighborhood services such as education, social solutions, collections, main roads, public transport, policing as well as fire services, Trading Standards, waste disposal and also tactical preparation. The village falls within the 'Blackmoor Vale' selecting ward. The most northerly parish is Mapperton with one of the most southerly being Henstridge. Corton Denham to the west is also included. The overall population of the ward at the 2011 census was 5,450. It is additionally part of the Somerton as well as Frome area constituency stood for 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 article system of political election, and part of the South West England constituency of the European Parliament which chooses 7 MEPs using the d'Hondt method of party-list proportional representation.