Templecombe
Templecombe is a town in Somerset, England, located on the A357 road 5 miles southern of Wincanton, 12 miles (19 km) east of Yeovil, and also 30 miles (48 kilometres) west of Salisbury. The town has a population of 1,560. Together with the district of Combe Throop it develops the parish of Abbas and Templecombe. The Abbas and also Templecombe parish council has duty for local problems, including establishing an annual mandate (regional price) to cover the council's operating expense and generating annual accounts for public scrutiny. The parish council reviews neighborhood planning applications and also works with the neighborhood authorities, area council policemans, as well as neighbourhood watch groups on matters of criminal offense, safety, and also web traffic. The parish council's role likewise consists of launching projects for the maintenance and repair of parish facilities, along with speaking with the district council on the maintenance, repair service, as well as enhancement of highways, drainage, footpaths, public transport, as well as road cleaning. Preservation matters (including trees and noted structures) and also ecological issues are also the obligation of the council. The village drops within the Non-metropolitan district of South Somerset, which was based on 1 April 1974 under the Local Government Act 1972, having formerly become part of Wincanton Rural District. The district council is in charge of neighborhood planning as well as structure control, regional roads, council real estate, environmental health, markets and fairs, refuse collection as well as recycling, cemeteries and crematoria, leisure services, parks, and tourist. Somerset County Council is in charge of running the biggest and also most pricey regional services such as education and learning, social services, libraries, main roads, public transport, policing as well as fire solutions, Trading Standards, waste disposal as well as critical planning. The village falls within the 'Blackmoor Vale' selecting ward. The most northward parish is Mapperton with the most southerly being Henstridge. Corton Denham to the west is likewise included. The overall population of the ward at the 2011 census was 5,450. It is also part of the Somerton and Frome region constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the UK. It elects one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the message system of political election, and also part of the South West England constituency of the European Parliament which elects seven MEPs making use of the d'Hondt technique of party-list proportional representation.
