This shows the rooms in the Village Green area:
http://photopost.wdwinfo.com/data/500/BWV_CourtyardPreferred.jpg As you can see, only studios are pool/garden. If anyone got the 1BR there as pool/garden, it would either have been a mistake or the result of some overflow or rooms out of service problem elsewhere.
As to 1BR pool/garden view elsewhere there are many good areas and the key request you should really make is high floor rather than specific area. We prefer, for pool/garden view, high floor rooms in the Luna Park (main pool) area; the view is decent but, more important, the rooms are fairly close to the elevator.
You can find maps of the rooms and room numbers in the various areas similar to the one above here:
http://www.disboards.com/showthread.php?t=2931467 NOTE, however, that requesting specific room numbers is the least likely request to be met and better to just request a general area if you want to be in it, particularly since the fallback method used by Disney is that if it cannot meet whatever specific request you have made, you are then just put back into the general pool of those with no requests and can end up anywhere, i.e., they don't try to give you something that is close or similar to your request if it cannot be met.