Axbridge is a town in Somerset, England, in the Sedgemoor area on the River Axe, near the southerly edge of the Mendip Hills. The town's population according to the 2011 census was 2,057. The town council (which is a parish council) has responsibility for local concerns. The community council examines local preparation applications and also works with the local cops, area council policemans, and also area watch groups on issues of crime, safety as well as website traffic. The town council also starts projects for the repair and maintenance of parish centers, and also talks to the area council on the upkeep, repair work and renovation of freeways, drain, walkways, public transportation as well as road cleaning. Conservation issues (consisting of trees and listed buildings) and ecological concerns are also the duty of the council. Yearly participants of the community council choose a mayor for the community. The town falls within the non-metropolitan district of Sedgemoor, which was based on 1 April 1974, under the Local Government Act 1972. It had actually belonged to Axbridge Rural District from 1894 to 1974, which was in charge of local preparation and also structure control, local roadways, council housing, environmental health and wellness, markets and also fairs, decline collection as well as recycling, burial grounds and crematoria, recreation solutions, parks and also tourist. Somerset County Council is in charge of running the biggest as well as most pricey local services such as education, social services, libraries, highways, public transportation, policing and also fire solutions, trading standards, waste disposal as well as strategic preparation. The community is in Axevale selecting ward. Axbridge is the most heavily populated location however the ward stretches south to Chapel Allerton. The complete ward population as taken at the 2011 census is 4,261. It is additionally part of the Wells region constituency represented in your home of Commons. It chooses one MP by the first-past-the-post system of election. It is additionally part of the South West England constituency of the European Parliament, which chooses six MEPs making use of the d'Hondt approach of party-list proportional representation.