Not bad ...

Actually, after a bit of googling, I turned up a couple of differing opinions:

User Posted Link - although this doesn't actually state that this was why the street was so named

User Posted Link "Rampant Horse Street gained its name from a tavern, but the horse market met here in the fifteenth century". Also: "Maddermarket was the centre of the dying trade, madder being a red pigment" - didn't know that either.

"Rampant" is also a heraldic term - when a horse rears on it's back legs

Posted By: BerlinCanary, May 9, 18:56:21