Martock is a big town and civil church in Somerset, England, situated on the edge of the Somerset Levels 7 miles (11.3 kilometres) north west of Yeovil in the South Somerset area. The parish includes Hurst, around one mile south of the village, as well as Bower Hinton, which is located at the western end of the village as well as bounded by Hurst and also the A303. Martock has a population of 4,766 and was historically a market community. The church council has duty for regional concerns, including setting an annual mandate (local price) to cover the council's operating costs and creating annual accounts for public scrutiny. The church council evaluates local preparation applications and also works with the regional cops, area council officers, and also area watch groups on issues of criminal activity, protection, and web traffic. The parish council's role also includes starting tasks for the maintenance and repair of parish facilities, along with consulting with the district council on the upkeep, repair service, as well as improvement of highways, drain, walkways, public transportation, as well as street cleaning. Conservation issues (including trees as well as provided buildings) and ecological issues are also 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 Yeovil Rural Area. The district council is in charge of local preparation as well as structure control, neighborhood roadways, council housing, ecological health, markets as well as fairs, refuse collection and also recycling, cemeteries and crematoria, leisure solutions, parks, as well as tourism. Somerset County Council is responsible for running the biggest as well as most expensive regional services such as education, social services, libraries, highways, public transportation, policing and also fire services, trading standards, waste disposal as well as critical planning. An electoral ward exists in the same name. Although Martock is the most heavily populated area the ward extends north to Long Tons. The complete population of this ward taken at the 2011 census was 5,724. It is also part of the Somerton and also Frome area constituency stood for in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It chooses one Member of Parliament (MP) by the initial 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.