Axbridge is a village in Somerset, England, in the Sedgemoor area on the River Axe, near the southern edge of the Mendip Hills. The community's population according to the 2011 census was 2,057. The town council (which is a parish council) has obligation for regional concerns. The town council evaluates neighborhood preparation applications and also collaborates with the regional police, area council officers, and also area watch groups on issues of criminal offense, protection as well as traffic. The community council also launches tasks for the maintenance and repair of parish centers, as well as talks to the area council on the maintenance, repair and also renovation of highways, drainage, paths, public transportation and also road cleaning. Conservation matters (including trees and listed buildings) and ecological issues are also the obligation of the council. Every year members of the community council choose a mayor for the town. The town falls within the non-metropolitan district of Sedgemoor, which was based on 1 April 1974, under the Local Government Act 1972. It had actually become part of Axbridge Rural Area from 1894 to 1974, which was responsible for neighborhood planning as well as structure control, neighborhood roads, council real estate, environmental wellness, markets and fairs, refuse collection as well as recycling, cemeteries and crematoria, leisure solutions, parks and also tourism. Somerset County Council is in charge of running the largest as well as most expensive neighborhood solutions such as education and learning, social solutions, collections, main roads, public transport, policing and also fire solutions, trading standards, garbage disposal as well as critical planning. The town remains in Axevale electoral ward. Axbridge is the most populous location yet the ward extends southern to Chapel Allerton. The total ward population as taken at the 2011 census is 4,261. It is likewise part of the Wells county constituency represented in your home of Commons. It elects one MP by the first-past-the-post system of political election. It is likewise part of the South West England constituency of the European Parliament, which elects 6 MEPs using the d'Hondt technique of party-list proportional representation.