 During the last five years of his life, Coke visited Longford annually and returned the estate to its former splendour.In June 1842, Coke, sensing that he was in his last days, decided to pay his boyhood home one last visit.Shortly after his arrival, after dedicating two new bridges he had built over a mill stream that ran through the village, he took seriously ill and died on 30 June 1842 at the age of 88.