Templecombe is a town in Somerset, England, positioned on the A357 roadway five miles south of Wincanton, 12 miles (19 km) east of Yeovil, and 30 miles (48 km) west of Salisbury. The town has a population of 1,560. Along with the community of Combe Throop it develops the parish of Abbas and Templecombe. The Abbas and Templecombe parish council has duty for neighborhood problems, including setting a yearly precept (local price) to cover the council's operating expense as well as generating annual accounts for public scrutiny. The parish council reviews neighborhood preparation applications and also collaborates with the local authorities, district council police officers, and neighbourhood watch groups on matters of crime, safety and security, as well as website traffic. The parish council's function likewise includes launching projects for the maintenance and repair of church facilities, in addition to consulting with the area council on the upkeep, repair service, as well as improvement of freeways, drainage, paths, public transport, and also street cleaning. Conservation matters (including trees and noted buildings) as well as ecological problems are also the obligation of the council. The village falls within the Non-metropolitan district of South Somerset, which was based on 1 April 1974 under the City Government Act 1972, having actually previously become part of Wincanton Rural District. The district council is in charge of neighborhood planning as well as building control, local roadways, council real estate, environmental health, markets and fairs, decline collection and recycling, cemeteries as well as crematoria, recreation solutions, parks, as well as tourism. Somerset County Council is accountable for running the largest as well as most pricey regional solutions such as education, social services, collections, highways, public transport, policing as well as fire services, Trading Standards, waste disposal and also strategic planning. The town drops within the 'Blackmoor Vale' electoral ward. The most northern parish is Mapperton with one of the most southerly being Henstridge. Corton Denham to the west is also consisted of. The total population of the ward at the 2011 census was 5,450. It is also part of the Somerton and also Frome area constituency stood for in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the UK. It chooses one Member of Parliament (MP) by the very first past the article system of political election, and part of the South West England constituency of the European Parliament which elects 7 MEPs making use of the d'Hondt approach of party-list proportional representation.
