| Templecombe | |
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  Templecombe Location within Somerset | |
| Population | 1,560 (2011)[1] |
| OS grid reference | ST709223 |
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| District | |
| Shire county | |
| Region | |
| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | Templecombe |
| Postcode district | BA8 |
| Dialling code | 01963 |
| Police | Avon and Somerset |
| Fire | Devon and Somerset |
| Ambulance | South Western |
| UK Parliament | |
Templecombe is a village in Somerset, England, situated on the A357 road five miles south of Wincanton, 12 miles (19 km) east of Yeovil, and 30 miles (48 km) west of Salisbury. It is in the Blackmore Vale.
Templecombe is the main settlement in the civil parish of Abbas and Templecombe, along with the hamlet of Combe Throop. Historically, Temple Combe was the southern part of the village and Abbas Combe the northern part,[2] but in modern usage Templecombe is the common name for the whole settlement.
The parish has a population of 1,560.[1]
- ^ a b "Statistics for Wards, LSOAs and Parishes – SUMMARY Profiles" (Excel). Somerset Intelligence. Retrieved 4 January 2014.
- ^ Baggs, AP; Siraut, MC (1999). A History of the County of Somerset: Volume 7, Bruton, Horethorne and Norton Ferris Hundreds. London: Victoria County History.