Axbridge is a town in Somerset, England, in the Sedgemoor district on the River Axe, near the southern side of the Mendip Hills. The town's population according to the 2011 census was 2,057. The community council (which is a church council) has duty for neighborhood problems. The community council assesses local planning applications and works with the regional police, district council officers, and area watch teams on issues of crime, protection as well as website traffic. The community council also initiates jobs for the maintenance and repair of parish facilities, and also seeks advice from the area council on the maintenance, repair work and also enhancement of highways, drain, paths, public transportation as well as street cleaning. Preservation issues (including trees and provided structures) and also environmental issues are also the obligation of the council. Every year members of the town council choose a mayor for the town. The community falls within the non-metropolitan district of Sedgemoor, which was based on 1 April 1974, under the Local Government Act 1972. It had become part of Axbridge Rural Area from 1894 to 1974, which was in charge of neighborhood planning and structure control, regional roads, council real estate, ecological wellness, markets and fairs, decline collection as well as recycling, burial grounds and crematoria, recreation solutions, parks as well as tourist. Somerset County Council is in charge of running the biggest as well as most costly regional services such as education, social solutions, libraries, main roads, public transport, policing as well as fire services, trading standards, garbage disposal and calculated planning. The community is in Axevale electoral ward. Axbridge is one of the most populous location but the ward extends south to Chapel Allerton. The complete ward population as taken at the 2011 census is 4,261. It is additionally part of the Wells area constituency represented in the House of Commons. It chooses one MP by the first-past-the-post system of election. It is also part of the South West England constituency of the European Parliament, which elects six MEPs utilizing the d'Hondt method of party-list proportional representation.