Templecombe is a town in Somerset, England, located on the A357 road 5 miles southern of Wincanton, 12 miles (19 km) eastern of Yeovil, as well as 30 miles (48 kilometres) west of Salisbury. The village has a population of 1,560. In addition to the community of Combe Throop it creates the parish of Abbas and also Templecombe. The Abbas and also Templecombe parish council has responsibility for neighborhood issues, including setting a yearly precept (regional price) to cover the council's operating expense as well as creating yearly accounts for public scrutiny. The parish council reviews neighborhood planning applications and deals with the local cops, area council policemans, and neighbourhood watch teams on issues of criminal activity, safety and security, and also website traffic. The church council's function also consists of initiating jobs for the repair and maintenance of parish facilities, as well as talking to the district council on the upkeep, repair work, and also improvement of highways, water drainage, walkways, public transportation, and street cleaning. Preservation matters (including trees and also listed structures) and also ecological issues are also the responsibility of the council. The town falls within the Non-metropolitan area of South Somerset, which was based on 1 April 1974 under the City Government Act 1972, having previously been part of Wincanton Rural District. The area council is accountable for regional preparation and structure control, neighborhood roads, council housing, environmental wellness, markets and fairs, reject collection and also recycling, burial grounds and crematoria, recreation services, parks, and tourism. Somerset County Council is in charge of running the biggest and also most costly local solutions such as education, social solutions, libraries, highways, public transport, policing and fire services, Trading Standards, waste disposal and critical preparation. The town drops within the 'Blackmoor Vale' selecting ward. The most northern parish is Mapperton with one of the most south 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 region constituency stood for in your house of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It chooses one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the blog post system of election, as well as part of the South West England constituency of the European Parliament which elects 7 MEPs using the d'Hondt approach of party-list proportional representation.