Axbridge is a town in Somerset, England, in the Sedgemoor area on the River Axe, near the southern side of the Mendip Hills. The town's population according to the 2011 census was 2,057. The community council (which is a parish council) has duty for regional concerns. The community council assesses regional planning applications and also works with the local police, district council police officers, and also neighbourhood watch teams on matters of criminal offense, security as well as traffic. The town council also initiates tasks for the maintenance and repair of parish centers, and also speaks with the area council on the maintenance, repair and improvement of freeways, drain, footpaths, public transportation and street cleaning. Conservation issues (including trees and listed structures) as well as ecological concerns are likewise the duty of the council. Every year members of the town council elect a mayor for the town. The community falls within the non-metropolitan district of Sedgemoor, which was formed on 1 April 1974, under the City Government Act 1972. It had belonged to Axbridge Rural District from 1894 to 1974, which was accountable for local planning as well as structure control, local roads, council real estate, environmental health, markets and fairs, decline collection as well as recycling, burial grounds and crematoria, leisure solutions, parks and tourism. Somerset County Council is in charge of running the biggest as well as most costly neighborhood solutions such as education, social services, collections, main roads, public transportation, policing and fire solutions, trading requirements, garbage disposal and also critical preparation. The town is in Axevale selecting ward. Axbridge is the most heavily populated area however the ward extends southern to Chapel Allerton. The complete ward population as taken at the 2011 census is 4,261. It is likewise part of the Wells region constituency represented in your house of Commons. It elects one MP by the first-past-the-post system of political election. It is also part of the South West England constituency of the European Parliament, which elects six MEPs utilizing the d'Hondt method of party-list proportional representation.