Templecombe is a town in Somerset, England, positioned on the A357 roadway 5 miles southern of Wincanton, 12 miles (19 km) east of Yeovil, as well as 30 miles (48 km) west of Salisbury. The village has a population of 1,560. Together with the district of Combe Throop it develops the parish of Abbas as well as Templecombe. The Abbas as well as Templecombe parish council has responsibility for neighborhood problems, consisting of setting an annual principle (neighborhood price) to cover the council's operating expense as well as generating annual make up public scrutiny. The parish council reviews regional preparation applications as well as works with the neighborhood cops, district council officers, and also neighbourhood watch groups on matters of crime, protection, and web traffic. The church council's function also includes initiating projects for the maintenance and repair of parish facilities, along with consulting with the area council on the upkeep, fixing, and also improvement of freeways, water drainage, paths, public transportation, as well as road cleaning. Conservation matters (consisting of trees as well as noted buildings) and environmental concerns are likewise the responsibility of the council. The village falls within the Non-metropolitan district of South Somerset, which was based on 1 April 1974 under the Local Government Act 1972, having actually previously become part of Wincanton Rural District. The district council is in charge of neighborhood preparation and also structure control, local roads, council real estate, ecological health, markets and fairs, refuse collection and also recycling, cemeteries as well as crematoria, leisure services, parks, and also tourism. Somerset County Council is accountable for running the largest and also most pricey neighborhood services such as education and learning, social solutions, libraries, main roads, public transportation, policing and also fire solutions, Trading Standards, garbage disposal and strategic preparation. The village drops within the 'Blackmoor Vale' electoral ward. One of the most northerly parish is Mapperton with the most southerly being Henstridge. Corton Denham to the west is likewise consisted of. The complete population of the ward at the 2011 census was 5,450. It is also part of the Somerton and Frome area constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It elects 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.
