Daily entries from the 17th century London diary
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New Palace Yard was immediately to the north of Westminster Hall: http://www.pepysdiary.com/p/128.php
Old Palace Yard was to the south of the Hall. Latham & Matthews assume that when Pepys was ambiguous and referred to merely “Palace Yard” or “Palace,” he’s referring to New Palace Yard.
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new palace yard had the world’s first traffic lights
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However the world’s first automatic traffic lights could be seen in Princes Square, Wolverhampton in 1927.
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The Crown was almost certainly in Old Palace Yard - it is refered to in a trial report of the theft of a silver tankard in 1683
http://www.oldbaileyonline.org/html_units/1680s/t16830418a-6.html
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About the New Palace Yard
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Palace_YardMap showing the New Palace Yard - lower center
http://www.motco.com/map/81002/SeriesSearchPlatesFullb.asp?mode=query&artist=384&other=361&x=11&y=11