Templecombe is a village in Somerset, England, positioned on the A357 road five 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. In addition to the community of Combe Throop it creates the parish of Abbas and also Templecombe. The Abbas and Templecombe parish council has responsibility for local issues, including setting an annual principle (regional price) to cover the council's operating costs and producing annual accounts for public scrutiny. The parish council examines regional planning applications and deals with the regional authorities, district council policemans, as well as neighbourhood watch teams on matters of criminal offense, safety, as well as traffic. The church council's duty additionally includes starting projects for the repair and maintenance of church facilities, as well as talking to the district council on the maintenance, repair work, and also renovation of highways, drain, footpaths, public transportation, as well as street cleaning. Preservation issues (including trees and also noted structures) and also environmental concerns 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 City Government Act 1972, having actually formerly been part of Wincanton Rural District. The area council is in charge of neighborhood planning as well as building control, neighborhood roadways, council housing, ecological health and wellness, markets as well as fairs, decline collection as well as recycling, burial grounds and crematoria, leisure solutions, parks, and tourism. Somerset County Council is in charge of running the largest and also most pricey regional solutions such as education and learning, social solutions, collections, main roads, public transportation, policing as well as fire services, Trading Standards, waste disposal and calculated preparation. The village drops within the 'Blackmoor Vale' selecting ward. The most northward parish is Mapperton with one of the most south being Henstridge. Corton Denham to the west is likewise included. The total population of the ward at the 2011 census was 5,450. It is additionally part of the Somerton as well as Frome region constituency represented in your home of Commons of the Parliament of the UK. It chooses one Member of Parliament (MP) by the very first past the message system of political election, as well as 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.