Martock is a huge town as well as civil church in Somerset, England, positioned on the edge of the Somerset Levels 7 miles (11.3 kilometres) north west of Yeovil in the South Somerset district. The church includes Hurst, approximately one mile south of the town, and Bower Hinton, which lies at the western end of the town and also bounded by Hurst and the A303. Martock has a population of 4,766 and also was traditionally a market community. The church council has obligation for neighborhood concerns, consisting of setting a yearly principle (local rate) to cover the council's operating costs and creating yearly represent public scrutiny. The church council examines local preparation applications and also deals with the regional police, district council police officers, and also neighbourhood watch groups on issues of criminal offense, security, as well as website traffic. The parish council's role additionally includes initiating jobs for the maintenance and repair of parish facilities, along with speaking with the area council on the maintenance, repair work, as well as renovation of freeways, water drainage, walkways, public transportation, as well as street cleaning. Conservation issues (including trees as well as noted structures) and ecological problems are also the responsibility of the council. The village drops within the Non-metropolitan district of South Somerset, which was based on 1 April 1974 under the Local Government Act 1972, having previously been part of Yeovil Rural District. The area council is in charge of regional preparation and also structure control, local roadways, council real estate, environmental wellness, markets and also fairs, decline collection as well as recycling, burial grounds and also crematoria, leisure services, parks, as well as tourist. Somerset County Council is responsible for running the biggest as well as most costly local solutions such as education, social services, collections, main roads, public transport, policing as well as fire services, trading criteria, waste disposal as well as critical preparation. A selecting ward exists in the exact same name. Although Martock is one of the most populated area the ward stretches north to Long Load. The total population of this ward taken at the 2011 census was 5,724. It is also part of the Somerton and also Frome region constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the UK. It elects one Member of Parliament (MP) by the very first past the blog post system of election, as well as part of the South West England constituency of the European Parliament which elects 7 MEPs using the d'Hondt approach of party-list proportional representation.