Templecombe is a town in Somerset, England, situated on the A357 road 5 miles south of Wincanton, 12 miles (19 kilometres) eastern of Yeovil, and also 30 miles (48 kilometres) west of Salisbury. The town has a population of 1,560. Together with the hamlet of Combe Throop it creates the parish of Abbas as well as Templecombe. The Abbas and also Templecombe parish council has responsibility for local problems, consisting of setting an annual precept (regional price) to cover the council's operating costs as well as creating yearly accounts for public scrutiny. The parish council reviews regional preparation applications and also deals with the regional authorities, district council police officers, as well as area watch groups on matters of crime, security, and website traffic. The church council's function additionally includes launching jobs for the maintenance and repair of parish facilities, as well as seeking advice from the district council on the upkeep, fixing, and renovation of highways, water drainage, footpaths, public transportation, and street cleaning. Preservation matters (including trees as well as listed structures) and also environmental concerns are additionally the responsibility of the council. The village drops within the Non-metropolitan district of South Somerset, which was based on 1 April 1974 under the City Government Act 1972, having formerly belonged to Wincanton Rural District. The area council is in charge of local preparation as well as structure control, neighborhood roadways, council real estate, ecological health and wellness, markets and also fairs, refuse collection as well as recycling, burial grounds and crematoria, recreation services, parks, and also tourism. Somerset County Council is in charge of running the biggest and most pricey local solutions such as education and learning, social solutions, collections, highways, public transportation, policing as well as fire services, Trading Standards, waste disposal as well as tactical planning. The town falls within the 'Blackmoor Vale' electoral ward. The most northward parish is Mapperton with one of the most south being Henstridge. Corton Denham to the west is also included. The overall 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 the House of Commons of the Parliament of the UK. It chooses one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the article system of election, and part of the South West England constituency of the European Parliament which chooses seven MEPs using the d'Hondt method of party-list proportional representation.