Martock is a huge town and civil parish in Somerset, England, positioned 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, about 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 the A303. Martock has a population of 4,766 and was historically a market town. The church council has obligation for neighborhood concerns, including establishing a yearly precept (regional rate) to cover the council's operating costs and also generating annual accounts for public scrutiny. The church council examines regional preparation applications and deals with the regional police, district council policemans, and also area watch teams on matters of criminal activity, safety, and also website traffic. The parish council's role likewise includes starting projects for the repair and maintenance of parish facilities, as well as consulting with the area council on the upkeep, repair, as well as renovation of highways, water drainage, walkways, public transport, and road cleaning. Conservation issues (including trees as well as detailed structures) and also environmental issues are likewise the responsibility of the council. The village drops within the Non-metropolitan district of South Somerset, which was formed on 1 April 1974 under the Local Government Act 1972, having actually formerly been part of Yeovil Rural Area. The area council is in charge of local planning and also structure control, local roadways, council housing, ecological health, markets and also fairs, decline collection and recycling, burial grounds and crematoria, leisure services, parks, and also tourist. Somerset County Council is accountable for running the biggest as well as most expensive local solutions such as education and learning, social services, libraries, main roads, public transportation, policing and also fire services, trading criteria, garbage disposal and strategic planning. An electoral ward exists in the same name. Although Martock is one of the most populous area the ward extends north to Long Lots. The overall population of this ward taken at the 2011 census was 5,724. It is additionally part of the Somerton and also Frome region constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the UK. It elects one Member of Parliament (MP) by the very first past the message 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.