Templecombe is a village in Somerset, England, located on the A357 road five miles southern of Wincanton, 12 miles (19 kilometres) eastern of Yeovil, and 30 miles (48 kilometres) west of Salisbury. The village has a population of 1,560. In addition to the hamlet of Combe Throop it develops the parish of Abbas as well as Templecombe. The Abbas as well as Templecombe parish council has duty for neighborhood concerns, consisting of setting an annual precept (regional price) to cover the council's operating costs as well as generating yearly represent public scrutiny. The parish council reviews neighborhood preparation applications and deals with the local police, district council policemans, and neighbourhood watch groups on issues of criminal activity, protection, and website traffic. The church council's function likewise consists of starting tasks for the maintenance and repair of parish facilities, in addition to speaking with the district council on the upkeep, repair service, and also improvement of freeways, drain, footpaths, public transportation, and road cleaning. Preservation issues (including trees as well as noted buildings) and ecological concerns are additionally the duty of the council. The town drops within the Non-metropolitan district of South Somerset, which was based on 1 April 1974 under the Local Government Act 1972, having actually formerly been part of Wincanton Rural District. The area council is in charge of regional planning and also structure control, local roads, council housing, ecological health, markets as well as fairs, refuse collection as well as recycling, cemeteries and also crematoria, leisure services, parks, as well as 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 transport, policing and also fire solutions, Trading Standards, garbage disposal as well as calculated 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 also consisted of. The overall population of the ward at the 2011 census was 5,450. It is also part of the Somerton as well as Frome county constituency stood for in your house of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It chooses one Member of Parliament (MP) by the initial past the message system of election, and part of the South West England constituency of the European Parliament which chooses seven MEPs making use of the d'Hondt approach of party-list proportional representation.