 It is also part of the Wells county constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.It elects one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first-past-the-post system of election and is part of the South West England constituency of the European Parliament which elects seven MEPs using the d'Hondt method of party-list proportional representation.The large Church of St Mary the Virgin is of particular interest, having an unusual spire for Somerset, and Jacobean interior woodwork of national renown.