Wiveliscombe (/ˈwɪvəlɪskəm, ˌwɪvəˈlɪskəm/, locally /ˈwɪlskəm/)[4] is a town and civil parish in Somerset, England, situated 9 miles (14 km) west of Taunton.

[8] The Anglo-Saxon settlement, the combe or valley of a certain Wifele,[9] was mentioned in the Domesday Book of 1086, when it was quite large, consisting of twenty-seven households, with an annual value to the lord, the Bishop of Wells St Andrew, of £25.

[12] Wiveliscombe Town Hall was built in 1840 by Somerset surveyor Richard Carver for Lord Ashburton.

[14] The Abbotsfield cottages were built by businessman Lukey Collard in the 1870s;[15] they became a Grade II listed building in 1975.

The town council's role also includes initiating projects for the maintenance and repair of parish facilities, as well as consulting with the district council on the maintenance, repair, and improvement of highways, drainage, footpaths, public transport, and street cleaning.

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

For local government purposes, since 1 April 2023, the town comes under the unitary authority of Somerset Council.

[18] It is also part of the Tiverton and Minehead county constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

Wiveliscombe is a former borough, market and cloth making town,[19] 5 miles (8 km) from the border between Devon and Somerset.

It is also one of the first towns in the UK to set up a completely free goods and services exchange forum for the local ten parishes area.

This earlier Meeting House was demolished sometime after the First World War, when North Street Motors was built on the site.