The Victory Garden

Where is Bucksley Cross Village located, and how is it described in the novel, The Victory Garden?

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Bucksley Cross Village is located in the countryside of Devonshire. The village is nestled at the edge of the moor and is built around a sloping green with a weathered Celtic cross in the middle. On one side of the green is a row of thatched cottages and on the other is a pub called the Red Lion, where Alice later lives with the mistress of the pub Nell Lacey. Emily describes Bucksley Cross as reminiscent of the wooden toy village she played with as a child. Smoke rose from the chimneys, it was surrounded by a patchwork of fields, and hedges and stone walls that stretched away in the distance, dotted with white sheep and cream-colored cows. And in the distance, you could see more villages, a town, and then the haze that crept inland from the sea.

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