Conservation matters (including trees and listed buildings) and environmental issues are also the responsibility of the council.

It is also part of the Glastonbury and Somerton county constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

Eastfield, Sedgemoor Hill is a grassland with orchids and butterflies which has been designated as a local nature reserve.

[4] Stembridge Tower Mill is the only remaining thatched windmill in England and is under the care of the National Trust.

It stands on the site of an earlier church, and was started in the early 17th century, damaged in the English Civil War, and completed in 1690.