Martock is a large village and also civil church 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 consists of Hurst, roughly one mile south of the town, as well as Bower Hinton, which lies at the western end of the village and also bounded by Hurst and the A303. Martock has a population of 4,766 and also was traditionally a market community. The church council has duty for local issues, consisting of establishing a yearly mandate (neighborhood price) to cover the council's operating costs and also creating yearly make up public scrutiny. The parish council reviews local planning applications as well as collaborates with the local cops, area council policemans, and also area watch teams on matters of crime, safety, as well as website traffic. The parish council's role also consists of starting jobs for the maintenance and repair of parish facilities, along with consulting with the area council on the maintenance, repair, and also improvement of freeways, drain, footpaths, public transport, and also street cleaning. Preservation issues (consisting of trees and noted structures) as well as ecological issues are additionally the obligation of the council. The town drops within the Non-metropolitan district of South Somerset, which was based on 1 April 1974 under the City Government Act 1972, having previously been part of Yeovil Rural Area. The area council is in charge of neighborhood planning as well as structure control, local roads, council housing, environmental health and wellness, markets and also fairs, decline collection as well as recycling, cemeteries as well as crematoria, recreation services, parks, and tourist. Somerset County Council is responsible for running the largest and also most costly regional services such as education and learning, social solutions, collections, highways, public transport, policing and fire services, trading criteria, garbage disposal as well as critical preparation. An electoral ward exists in the exact same name. Although Martock is the most heavily populated area the ward stretches north to Long Tons. The overall population of this ward taken at the 2011 census was 5,724. It is likewise part of the Somerton as well as Frome county constituency represented in your house of Commons of the Parliament of the UK. It elects one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the message system of political election, and also part of the South West England constituency of the European Parliament which elects seven MEPs making use of the d'Hondt approach of party-list proportional representation.