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Templecombe
Templecombe is a village in Somerset, England, located on the A357 roadway five miles southern of Wincanton, 12 miles (19 km) east of Yeovil, and also 30 miles (48 km) west of Salisbury. The town has a population of 1,560. Along with the district of Combe Throop it forms the parish of Abbas and Templecombe. The Abbas as well as Templecombe parish council has obligation for local concerns, including establishing an annual mandate (regional rate) to cover the council's operating expense as well as generating yearly accounts for public scrutiny. The parish council reviews local preparation applications and also deals with the local cops, district council police officers, and neighbourhood watch groups on issues of crime, security, as well as web traffic. The parish council's role likewise includes launching projects for the repair and maintenance of church facilities, along with consulting with the district council on the upkeep, repair service, as well as improvement of highways, water drainage, paths, public transport, as well as road cleaning. Conservation matters (consisting of trees and listed structures) and also environmental concerns are also the duty of the council. The village falls within the Non-metropolitan district of South Somerset, which was formed on 1 April 1974 under the Local Government Act 1972, having previously belonged to Wincanton Rural District. The area council is responsible for local preparation and also building control, regional roadways, council real estate, ecological wellness, markets and fairs, decline collection and also recycling, cemeteries as well as crematoria, leisure solutions, parks, and tourist. Somerset County Council is accountable for running the biggest and also most expensive regional solutions such as education and learning, social solutions, libraries, main roads, public transport, policing and also fire solutions, Trading Standards, waste disposal and also calculated preparation. The town falls within the 'Blackmoor Vale' electoral ward. The most northward parish is Mapperton with one of the most southerly being Henstridge. Corton Denham to the west is additionally consisted of. The overall population of the ward at the 2011 census was 5,450. It is additionally part of the Somerton and also Frome county constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the UK. It chooses one Member of Parliament (MP) by the initial past the message system of election, and also part of the South West England constituency of the European Parliament which elects seven MEPs using the d'Hondt approach of party-list proportional representation.