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Amounderness in the 1060s was held by the [[Anglo-Saxons|Anglo-Saxon]], [[Tostig Godwinson]], whose brother [[Harold Godwinson]] became King of England. As a result of Tostig's treachery, which led to the [[Battle of Stamford Bridge]], King Harold's army was badly weakened and lost its next battle against [[William the Conqueror|William of Normandy]] at [[Battle of Hastings|Hastings]]. Harold was killed and William seized the [[Crown]] and lands of [[England]].
One of Harold's supporters, Germot of [[York]] was stirred to take [[revenge]] against Tostig who had been killed at Stamford Bridge. He made a marauding foray into Amounderness, overran the countryside, [[Looting|pillaging]] it and leaving it near derelict. All of Tostig's supporters were killed. [[William the Conqueror|King William's]] Norman Army, faced with rebellion by the northern [[Earl|Earls]] [[Edwin, Earl of Mercia|Edwin]] and [[Morcar]], completed the devastation by burning the town of Preston and the surrounding areas, leaving few inhabitants in the remaining settlements.
Fulwood became a [[royal forest]] within the [[Amounderness Hundred ]] after the [[Norman Conquest|Norman invasion]] of [[1066]]. A royal forest was an area of land where [[Royal forest#Forest law|forest law]] ruled, it belonged to the [[Crown Estate|Crown]] and there were [[Ban (medieval)|bans]] on [[hunting]], [[Agriculture|cultivation]], [[enclosure]], felling of trees, digging of peat etc. [[King]] [[William the Conqueror|William I]] gave large areas of land to knights who served him well and he gave all of the land known as [[Amounderness]] to the [[baron]]
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