Templecombe is a village in Somerset, England, situated on the A357 roadway five miles south of Wincanton, 12 miles (19 kilometres) east of Yeovil, and 30 miles (48 kilometres) west of Salisbury. The village has a population of 1,560. Along with the district of Combe Throop it develops the parish of Abbas as well as Templecombe. The Abbas and also Templecombe parish council has duty for local issues, including setting a yearly precept (local price) to cover the council's operating costs and also generating annual make up public scrutiny. The parish council assesses neighborhood preparation applications and also deals with the local authorities, area council policemans, and also neighbourhood watch groups on matters of criminal activity, safety, as well as web traffic. The parish council's role additionally includes launching projects for the maintenance and repair of parish facilities, along with seeking advice from the district council on the maintenance, repair service, and also improvement of highways, water drainage, paths, public transport, as well as street cleaning. Preservation matters (including trees and also noted structures) and ecological problems are also the duty of the council. The village drops within the Non-metropolitan area of South Somerset, which was formed on 1 April 1974 under the City Government Act 1972, having formerly belonged to Wincanton Rural District. The area council is responsible for local preparation as well as structure control, regional roads, council housing, ecological health, markets as well as fairs, reject collection and recycling, burial grounds and also crematoria, leisure services, parks, as well as tourism. Somerset County Council is in charge of running the largest as well as most costly regional services such as education and learning, social services, collections, highways, public transportation, policing and fire services, Trading Standards, garbage disposal and also strategic preparation. The town drops within the 'Blackmoor Vale' selecting ward. One of the most northern parish is Mapperton with one of the most south being Henstridge. Corton Denham to the west is also 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 area constituency represented 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 election, and part of the South West England constituency of the European Parliament which elects 7 MEPs making use of the d'Hondt method of party-list proportional representation.