Axbridge is a village in Somerset, England, in the Sedgemoor area on the River Axe, near the southerly side of the Mendip Hills. The town's population according to the 2011 census was 2,057. The community council (which is a church council) has obligation for regional issues. The community council evaluates regional preparation applications and also works with the regional authorities, district council officers, as well as area watch groups on matters of crime, safety and also website traffic. The town council also launches tasks for the maintenance and repair of parish facilities, and also seeks advice from the district council on the maintenance, repair work and also enhancement of freeways, water drainage, paths, public transport and street cleaning. Conservation matters (consisting of trees and also noted structures) and environmental issues are likewise the duty of the council. Every year participants of the community council choose a mayor for the town. The community drops within the non-metropolitan district of Sedgemoor, which was based on 1 April 1974, under the Local Government Act 1972. It had belonged to Axbridge Rural District from 1894 to 1974, which was in charge of regional planning and also structure control, regional roads, council housing, environmental wellness, markets and fairs, reject collection and recycling, burial grounds and also crematoria, leisure solutions, parks and also tourism. Somerset County Council is responsible for running the biggest and also most pricey regional solutions such as education and learning, social services, collections, main roads, public transport, policing as well as fire services, trading criteria, waste disposal as well as strategic planning. The town is in Axevale electoral ward. Axbridge is the most populous area however the ward stretches south to Chapel Allerton. The total ward population as taken at the 2011 census is 4,261. It is additionally part of the Wells area constituency represented in the House of Commons. It elects 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 chooses six MEPs using the d'Hondt approach of party-list proportional representation.