Templecombe
Templecombe is a town in Somerset, England, located on the A357 road 5 miles southern of Wincanton, 12 miles (19 kilometres) east of Yeovil, as well as 30 miles (48 kilometres) west of Salisbury. The town has a population of 1,560. Along with the hamlet of Combe Throop it creates the parish of Abbas and Templecombe. The Abbas as well as Templecombe parish council has obligation for regional concerns, including setting a yearly principle (neighborhood rate) to cover the council's operating expense and also producing yearly represent public scrutiny. The parish council assesses neighborhood planning applications and collaborates with the local police, area council police officers, and also neighbourhood watch groups on matters of criminal activity, safety and security, and web traffic. The parish council's duty also includes launching tasks for the maintenance and repair of church facilities, as well as talking to the district council on the maintenance, repair, and also improvement of highways, water drainage, walkways, public transportation, and street cleaning. Conservation issues (including trees and provided structures) as well as environmental problems are additionally the responsibility of the council. The town drops within the Non-metropolitan area of South Somerset, which was formed on 1 April 1974 under the Local Government Act 1972, having actually formerly become part of Wincanton Rural District. The district council is accountable for neighborhood preparation and building control, neighborhood roadways, council housing, ecological wellness, markets and fairs, refuse collection and recycling, cemeteries and also crematoria, leisure solutions, parks, as well as tourist. Somerset County Council is in charge of running the largest as well as most expensive regional services such as education and learning, social services, collections, highways, public transport, policing and also fire services, Trading Standards, waste disposal as well as critical planning. The village falls within the 'Blackmoor Vale' electoral ward. The most northerly parish is Mapperton with the most south being Henstridge. Corton Denham to the west is also included. The complete population of the ward at the 2011 census was 5,450. It is likewise part of the Somerton and also Frome county constituency stood for in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It chooses one Member of Parliament (MP) by the initial past the post system of political election, and also part of the South West England constituency of the European Parliament which chooses 7 MEPs using the d'Hondt technique of party-list proportional representation.
