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Many of the villages on the Mendips have their own parish councils, which have some responsibility for local issues. Local people also elect councillors to district councils or to unitary authorities. The 198 km2 (76 sq mi) of the AONB are split across four districts: Mendip District Council 87.67 km2 (33.8 sq mi), Sedgemoor District Council 34.03 km2 (13.1 sq mi), Bath and North East Somerset Council 36.95 km2 (14.3 sq mi), and North Somerset Council 39.35 km2 (15.2 sq mi).[1] Each of the villages is also part of a parliamentary constituency: Wells, Weston-super-Mare or North East Somerset. The area is also part of the South West England European Parliament constituency. Avon and Somerset Constabulary provides police services to the area.
[edit] Demographics
The population on the higher plateau is widely dispersed in small farms and hamlets, although most people now commute to employment in surrounding cities and towns instead of working in agriculture or forestry. The largest village on the plateau on the western Mendips is Priddy which had a population of 598 people at the time of the 2001 census[55] along with the smaller hamlet of Charterhouse.[2] The larger villages and towns are on the lower slopes of the western hills, often in river valleys. Axbridge with a population of 2,024,[56] Cheddar (population 5,724),[56] which are both within the Sedgemoor district and the Mendip town of Shepton Mallet (9,700)[57] and the city of Wells (10,406)[55] are along the southern border of the hills. The North Somerset parishes of Blagdon (1,172)[58] and the parishes of Compton Martin (508),[59] and East Harptree (608)[59] and West Harptree (459)[59] lie along the northern edge.
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