Templecombe is a village in Somerset, England, located on the A357 road 5 miles south of Wincanton, 12 miles (19 km) east of Yeovil, and 30 miles (48 km) west of Salisbury. The village has a population of 1,560. Together with the community of Combe Throop it forms the parish of Abbas and Templecombe. The Abbas and also Templecombe parish council has responsibility for local problems, consisting of setting an annual principle (regional rate) to cover the council's operating costs and also generating annual accounts for public scrutiny. The parish council examines local preparation applications and deals with the regional police, area council police officers, and also neighbourhood watch teams on issues of criminal activity, safety, and also web traffic. The parish council's duty likewise consists of initiating tasks for the maintenance and repair of parish facilities, in addition to speaking with the district council on the maintenance, repair work, and also improvement of freeways, drain, walkways, public transport, and also street cleaning. Preservation issues (consisting of trees as well as detailed buildings) and environmental problems are additionally 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 previously belonged to Wincanton Rural District. The area council is accountable for neighborhood preparation as well as building control, neighborhood roads, council real estate, ecological health and wellness, markets as well as fairs, refuse collection and also recycling, cemeteries as well as crematoria, leisure services, parks, and tourism. Somerset County Council is accountable for running the largest and also most pricey local solutions such as education, social solutions, collections, highways, public transport, policing and fire services, Trading Standards, waste disposal and also critical planning. The village drops within the 'Blackmoor Vale' selecting ward. The most northerly parish is Mapperton with the most southerly being Henstridge. Corton Denham to the west is likewise 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 represented in your house of Commons of the Parliament of the UK. It chooses one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the blog post system of political election, and part of the South West England constituency of the European Parliament which elects 7 MEPs using the d'Hondt technique of party-list proportional representation.