Templecombe
Templecombe is a town in Somerset, England, located on the A357 roadway five miles south of Wincanton, 12 miles (19 km) eastern of Yeovil, and 30 miles (48 km) west of Salisbury. The village has a population of 1,560. In addition to the district of Combe Throop it creates the parish of Abbas and Templecombe. The Abbas and Templecombe parish council has obligation for local concerns, including establishing a yearly mandate (regional rate) to cover the council's operating expense as well as creating annual represent public scrutiny. The parish council assesses neighborhood planning applications and deals with the regional cops, area council policemans, and also neighbourhood watch groups on matters of crime, security, and also website traffic. The church council's duty likewise consists of initiating tasks for the maintenance and repair of church facilities, as well as speaking with the district council on the upkeep, repair, and improvement of highways, drain, walkways, public transport, and road cleaning. Preservation matters (consisting of trees and noted buildings) and ecological problems are also the responsibility of the council. The village falls within the Non-metropolitan area of South Somerset, which was formed on 1 April 1974 under the Local Government Act 1972, having actually formerly belonged to Wincanton Rural District. The district council is responsible for neighborhood planning as well as structure control, neighborhood roadways, council housing, ecological health, markets as well as fairs, refuse collection and recycling, cemeteries and crematoria, recreation services, parks, and also tourism. Somerset County Council is accountable for running the biggest and also most costly neighborhood services such as education, social services, collections, highways, public transport, policing as well as fire services, Trading Standards, garbage disposal and also strategic planning. The town falls within the 'Blackmoor Vale' electoral ward. One of the most northward parish is Mapperton with the most southerly being Henstridge. Corton Denham to the west is additionally included. 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 stood for in your home 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 seven MEPs making use of the d'Hondt method of party-list proportional representation.