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 district. The church includes Hurst, around one mile south of the village, and Bower Hinton, which lies at the western end of the village as well as bounded by Hurst and also the A303. Martock has a population of 4,766 and also was historically a market community. The parish council has duty for local issues, consisting of establishing an annual principle (neighborhood rate) to cover the council's operating expense and also generating yearly represent public scrutiny. The church council reviews local planning applications and collaborates with the local police, area council policemans, and area watch teams on issues of crime, security, and web traffic. The parish council's duty additionally includes initiating jobs for the maintenance and repair of parish facilities, as well as talking to the district council on the upkeep, repair service, and renovation of highways, water drainage, footpaths, public transport, and also street cleaning. Conservation issues (consisting of trees and provided buildings) and ecological concerns are additionally the duty 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 actually previously belonged to Yeovil Rural District. The district council is accountable for neighborhood planning and also structure control, local roads, council real estate, environmental health, markets and fairs, refuse collection and recycling, burial grounds and crematoria, recreation solutions, parks, as well as tourist. Somerset County Council is accountable for running the largest and also most expensive regional solutions such as education, social services, libraries, highways, public transportation, policing and also fire services, trading criteria, garbage disposal and also calculated planning. An electoral ward exists in the same name. Although Martock is the most populated location the ward stretches north to Long Tons. The complete population of this ward taken at the 2011 census was 5,724. It is additionally part of the Somerton and Frome county constituency stood for in your house of Commons of the Parliament of the UK. It elects one Member of Parliament (MP) by the very first past the article system of political election, as well as 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.