Templecombe
Templecombe is a village in Somerset, England, located on the A357 road 5 miles southern of Wincanton, 12 miles (19 kilometres) east of Yeovil, and 30 miles (48 km) west of Salisbury. The town has a population of 1,560. Along with the community of Combe Throop it creates the parish of Abbas as well as Templecombe. The Abbas and also Templecombe parish council has duty for local concerns, consisting of setting a yearly principle (local rate) to cover the council's operating costs as well as generating yearly accounts for public scrutiny. The parish council examines neighborhood preparation applications and deals with the local police, district council police officers, and also area watch teams on matters of crime, safety and security, as well as traffic. The parish council's function likewise includes starting jobs for the repair and maintenance of church facilities, in addition to speaking with the area council on the maintenance, fixing, and improvement of freeways, water drainage, paths, public transportation, as well as road cleaning. Preservation issues (including trees as well as noted buildings) and environmental concerns are additionally the duty of the council. The village falls within the Non-metropolitan area of South Somerset, which was formed on 1 April 1974 under the Local Government Act 1972, having actually previously become part of Wincanton Rural District. The area council is in charge of regional preparation and building control, regional roadways, council housing, environmental wellness, markets as well as fairs, refuse collection and recycling, burial grounds and crematoria, leisure services, parks, and also tourist. Somerset County Council is in charge of running the biggest and most expensive local solutions such as education and learning, social solutions, collections, highways, public transportation, policing and also fire solutions, Trading Standards, waste disposal as well as calculated preparation. The town 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 complete population of the ward at the 2011 census was 5,450. It is additionally part of the Somerton and also Frome area constituency represented in your home of Commons of the Parliament of the UK. It chooses one Member of Parliament (MP) by the initial past the post system of political election, as well as part of the South West England constituency of the European Parliament which chooses seven MEPs using the d'Hondt method of party-list proportional representation.