Martock is a large village as well as civil parish in Somerset, England, situated on the edge of the Somerset Levels 7 miles (11.3 kilometres) north west of Yeovil in the South Somerset area. The church includes Hurst, around one mile south of the town, as well as Bower Hinton, which is located at the western end of the village and bounded by Hurst as well as the A303. Martock has a population of 4,766 as well as was traditionally a market community. The parish council has duty for local concerns, including setting a yearly mandate (regional price) to cover the council's operating expense as well as producing annual make up public scrutiny. The parish council examines local planning applications and also deals with the regional authorities, district council policemans, as well as area watch teams on matters of crime, security, as well as website traffic. The parish council's role also includes starting tasks for the maintenance and repair of parish facilities, along with consulting with the district council on the upkeep, repair, and improvement of highways, drainage, paths, public transportation, and also street cleaning. Preservation issues (consisting of trees and listed structures) as well as environmental concerns are likewise the responsibility of the council. The town drops within the Non-metropolitan district of South Somerset, which was formed on 1 April 1974 under the City Government Act 1972, having actually formerly belonged to Yeovil Rural District. The district council is in charge of neighborhood planning and also building control, neighborhood roads, council housing, ecological health and wellness, markets and fairs, decline collection and also recycling, burial grounds as well as crematoria, recreation solutions, parks, and also tourism. Somerset County Council is in charge of running the biggest and also most pricey neighborhood solutions such as education, social services, collections, highways, public transportation, policing and also fire services, trading standards, waste disposal and also tactical preparation. A selecting ward exists in the exact same name. Although Martock is one of the most heavily populated area the ward stretches north to Long Lots. The overall population of this ward taken at the 2011 census was 5,724. It is additionally part of the Somerton and also Frome region constituency stood for in your house of Commons of the Parliament of the UK. It chooses one Member of Parliament (MP) by the very first past the post system of political election, and part of the South West England constituency of the European Parliament which chooses seven MEPs using the d'Hondt approach of party-list proportional representation.