Axbridge is a town in Somerset, England, in the Sedgemoor district on the River Axe, near the southerly side of the Mendip Hills. The community's population according to the 2011 census was 2,057. The community council (which is a parish council) has responsibility for local problems. The community council reviews neighborhood preparation applications as well as works with the neighborhood police, district council police officers, and also neighbourhood watch teams on issues of criminal activity, protection and website traffic. The town council additionally launches projects for the maintenance and repair of parish facilities, and speaks with the district council on the upkeep, repair work and renovation of highways, drainage, paths, public transport and also road cleaning. Conservation matters (including trees and also provided structures) and also ecological issues are also the duty of the council. Each year participants of the community council choose a mayor for the town. The town drops within the non-metropolitan district of Sedgemoor, which was based on 1 April 1974, under the Local Government Act 1972. It had actually become part of Axbridge Rural Area from 1894 to 1974, which was accountable for neighborhood planning as well as structure control, neighborhood roads, council housing, ecological health, markets and fairs, refuse collection and also recycling, cemeteries and crematoria, recreation solutions, parks as well as tourism. Somerset County Council is accountable for running the biggest and also most pricey neighborhood solutions such as education, social services, collections, highways, public transport, policing and also fire services, trading requirements, garbage disposal and also critical planning. The town is in Axevale electoral ward. Axbridge is the most heavily populated area but the ward extends southern to Chapel Allerton. The total ward population as taken at the 2011 census is 4,261. It is likewise part of the Wells region constituency stood for in the House of Commons. It chooses one MP by the first-past-the-post system of political election. It is additionally part of the South West England constituency of the European Parliament, which elects 6 MEPs utilizing the d'Hondt technique of party-list proportional representation.