Templecombe is a town in Somerset, England, situated on the A357 roadway five miles southern of Wincanton, 12 miles (19 km) eastern of Yeovil, as well as 30 miles (48 kilometres) west of Salisbury. The village has a population of 1,560. Along with the hamlet of Combe Throop it creates the parish of Abbas and Templecombe. The Abbas and also Templecombe parish council has obligation for neighborhood issues, consisting of establishing an annual precept (neighborhood price) to cover the council's operating costs and creating annual accounts for public scrutiny. The parish council reviews local preparation applications and also deals with the neighborhood authorities, district council police officers, and also area watch teams on matters of crime, security, and also website traffic. The parish council's function also consists of launching tasks for the repair and maintenance of church facilities, in addition to seeking advice from the area council on the maintenance, repair service, and enhancement of freeways, drainage, walkways, public transport, and road cleaning. Conservation matters (consisting of trees and also noted buildings) and ecological issues are also the obligation of the council. The village falls within the Non-metropolitan area of South Somerset, which was based on 1 April 1974 under the Local Government Act 1972, having actually previously belonged to Wincanton Rural District. The area council is in charge of neighborhood preparation as well as building control, regional roads, council housing, environmental health, markets as well as fairs, decline collection as well as recycling, cemeteries and also crematoria, leisure services, parks, and tourist. Somerset County Council is accountable for running the largest and also most pricey neighborhood services such as education, social services, libraries, highways, public transport, policing and fire services, Trading Standards, garbage disposal and also strategic planning. The village falls within the 'Blackmoor Vale' electoral ward. The most northerly parish is Mapperton with the most south 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 additionally part of the Somerton and Frome county constituency represented in your home of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It elects one Member of Parliament (MP) by the initial past the message system of election, and also 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.