Martock
Martock is a big town and also civil parish in Somerset, England, located on the edge of the Somerset Levels 7 miles (11.3 km) north west of Yeovil in the South Somerset area. The parish includes Hurst, about one mile south of the village, and also Bower Hinton, which lies at the western end of the village and also bounded by Hurst as well as the A303. Martock has a population of 4,766 and was traditionally a market town. The church council has duty for regional problems, including setting an annual precept (neighborhood price) to cover the council's operating costs and creating yearly represent public scrutiny. The parish council reviews local preparation applications and also deals with the local cops, district council police officers, as well as neighbourhood watch groups on matters of crime, safety, and also website traffic. The parish council's role also includes launching tasks for the maintenance and repair of parish facilities, in addition to speaking with the area council on the maintenance, repair, and also improvement of highways, drain, walkways, public transport, as well as road cleaning. Preservation matters (consisting of trees and noted structures) and also ecological problems are also the responsibility of the council. The town drops within the Non-metropolitan district of South Somerset, which was formed on 1 April 1974 under the Local Government Act 1972, having previously been part of Yeovil Rural Area. The area council is accountable for local planning as well as building control, local roadways, council housing, environmental wellness, markets as well as fairs, reject collection and also recycling, cemeteries and crematoria, recreation services, parks, and also tourist. Somerset County Council is accountable for running the largest as well as most expensive neighborhood solutions such as education and learning, social solutions, collections, main roads, public transportation, policing and also fire services, trading standards, garbage disposal as well as tactical planning. An electoral ward exists in the very same name. Although Martock is the most populous area the ward extends north to Long Load. The overall population of this ward taken at the 2011 census was 5,724. It is additionally part of the Somerton and also Frome area constituency stood for in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the UK. It chooses one Member of Parliament (MP) by the very first past the article system of political election, and part of the South West England constituency of the European Parliament which chooses 7 MEPs using the d'Hondt technique of party-list proportional representation.
