Templecombe is a town in Somerset, England, positioned on the A357 roadway five miles southern of Wincanton, 12 miles (19 km) east of Yeovil, and also 30 miles (48 kilometres) west of Salisbury. The town has a population of 1,560. In addition to the hamlet of Combe Throop it forms the parish of Abbas as well as Templecombe. The Abbas and Templecombe parish council has responsibility for neighborhood concerns, consisting of establishing an annual precept (local price) to cover the council's operating costs and also producing yearly accounts for public scrutiny. The parish council assesses local planning applications and also works with the neighborhood police, district council officers, and also neighbourhood watch groups on matters of criminal activity, protection, and also web traffic. The parish council's duty additionally consists of starting projects for the repair and maintenance of parish facilities, as well as speaking with the district council on the upkeep, fixing, as well as renovation of highways, drain, paths, public transport, and road cleaning. Conservation matters (consisting of trees as well as detailed structures) as well as environmental problems are likewise the obligation of the council. The village falls within the Non-metropolitan district of South Somerset, which was formed on 1 April 1974 under the Local Government Act 1972, having previously been part of Wincanton Rural District. The district council is in charge of neighborhood preparation as well as structure control, local roads, council housing, ecological health and wellness, markets and also fairs, decline collection and recycling, cemeteries as well as crematoria, leisure services, parks, and also tourism. Somerset County Council is in charge of running the biggest as well as most expensive regional services such as education and learning, social services, collections, main roads, public transport, policing and fire services, Trading Standards, garbage disposal as well as strategic planning. The town drops within the 'Blackmoor Vale' electoral ward. The most northern parish is Mapperton with the most south being Henstridge. Corton Denham to the west is likewise consisted of. The total population of the ward at the 2011 census was 5,450. It is additionally part of the Somerton and also Frome region constituency represented in your home of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It elects one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the blog post system of election, and also part of the South West England constituency of the European Parliament which chooses seven MEPs using the d'Hondt technique of party-list proportional representation.
