Templecombe is a village in Somerset, England, situated on the A357 roadway 5 miles southern of Wincanton, 12 miles (19 km) east of Yeovil, and 30 miles (48 kilometres) west of Salisbury. The town has a population of 1,560. In addition to the hamlet of Combe Throop it develops the parish of Abbas as well as Templecombe. The Abbas and also Templecombe parish council has duty for regional issues, including setting a yearly mandate (local price) to cover the council's operating costs and producing annual accounts for public scrutiny. The parish council reviews local preparation applications as well as works with the regional police, district council officers, and area watch teams on issues of criminal activity, security, and web traffic. The church council's function also consists of initiating tasks for the maintenance and repair of parish facilities, along with seeking advice from the district council on the upkeep, repair work, as well as improvement of highways, drain, footpaths, public transportation, as well as road cleaning. Preservation matters (including trees as well as listed buildings) and ecological issues are likewise 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 previously become part of Wincanton Rural District. The area council is responsible for neighborhood planning and building control, regional roadways, council housing, environmental health and wellness, markets as well as fairs, decline collection and also recycling, cemeteries and crematoria, recreation solutions, parks, and also tourism. Somerset County Council is accountable for running the biggest as well as most costly local solutions such as education, social services, collections, highways, public transportation, policing and fire services, Trading Standards, waste disposal and calculated preparation. The town drops within the 'Blackmoor Vale' electoral ward. The most northerly parish is Mapperton with one of the most southerly being Henstridge. Corton Denham to the west is additionally consisted of. The total population of the ward at the 2011 census was 5,450. It is additionally part of the Somerton as well as Frome region constituency stood for in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. 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 chooses seven MEPs making use of the d'Hondt approach of party-list proportional representation.