Ed Sheeran admits building his own village is "weird" but he just wanted to give his family some privacy.

The pop star spent millions snapping up land and other homes around his mansion in Suffolk, England to create one massive estate which boasts a pub, a chapel and a lake - and Ed has revealed he just wanted some space where he could relax away from the spotlight.

During an appearance on the 'Call Her Daddy' podcast, Ed explained: "We built a chapel on our land, and we do Christmas carols there.

"And then after the Christmas carols, everyone comes in for mulled wine and mince pies and stuff. We can hold 40 or 50 people [in the pub], but it's like a crammed space ...

"I know it sounds weird to sort of build an infrastructure on your property where you don't have to leave it … There's certain moments you just want to spend with your family and not have someone filming you while you're doing it, especially whether it's something like that, like Christmas."

The pub he built is called the Lancaster Lock - a combination of the last names of his mother and his wife Cherry's mom - and is modelled on a boozer he used to go to as a teenager.

He added of the space: "You can never really let loose the way that you used to be able to, as in my teenage years, you know, you go to a pub to blow off steam.

"I think it sort of turned into, everyone always knew that I went to this place, and there was a dilapidated barn on my land. I was like, we could just turn it into a pub ...

He went on to add that he's filled the pub with his movie prop collection and he's added a cinema and a listening room.

Ed said: "So I bought an old pub off eBay, like the the counter, and there's a tunnel to it, and in the tunnel, I built a listening room, and there's a cinema, and that's kind of my, less of a man cave and more of a man catacombs."