Martock is a large town as well as civil church 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 church includes Hurst, around one mile south of the town, and also Bower Hinton, which is located 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 responsibility for local problems, including establishing an annual precept (local price) to cover the council's operating expense and creating annual represent public scrutiny. The church council assesses local planning applications and also deals with the local police, district council policemans, and also area watch groups on issues of crime, protection, as well as web traffic. The parish council's role likewise includes starting tasks for the maintenance and repair of parish facilities, as well as talking to the area council on the maintenance, repair work, and enhancement of freeways, water drainage, walkways, public transportation, and also road cleaning. Conservation matters (consisting of trees and noted structures) and environmental issues are additionally the responsibility of the council. The town drops within the Non-metropolitan area of South Somerset, which was formed on 1 April 1974 under the Local Government Act 1972, having actually previously belonged to Yeovil Rural District. The district council is accountable for neighborhood planning and building control, local roadways, council real estate, environmental wellness, markets as well as fairs, refuse collection and also recycling, burial grounds and crematoria, recreation services, parks, and also tourism. Somerset County Council is responsible for running the biggest and also most expensive regional solutions such as education, social services, collections, highways, public transportation, policing as well as fire services, trading criteria, garbage disposal and also critical planning. A selecting ward exists in the very same name. Although Martock is one of the most populated area the ward extends north to Long Load. 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 represented in your home of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It elects one Member of Parliament (MP) by the initial past the blog post system of political election, as well as part of the South West England constituency of the European Parliament which elects seven MEPs using the d'Hondt method of party-list proportional representation.