Charlcombe Lane, near Bath, will be shut until 25 March as the Charlcombe Toad Rescue Group helps toads, frogs, and newts reach their ancestral breeding lake.
Road to close for six weeks to allow toads to cross Toad closure: There are more than 200 patrols across the UK helping amphibians during the migration season.
Helen Hobbs, who has been managing Charlcombe Toad Rescue Group since 2003, said: “Closing Charlcombe Lane, with the support of the local community, has been a game changer for our amphibian population.
It is only one of four road closures in the UK and it has played a vital role in keeping the local population of amphibians stable during the last 20 years.
In 2016 a team of scientists used data collected by toad patrols to explore what had been happening to the population of common toads across the UK.
