Kid catching punch in the gut in English town (7)
I believe the answer is:
swindon
'english town' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)
'kid catching punch in the gut' is the wordplay.
'kid' becomes 'son' (male child).
'catching' is an insertion indicator.
'punch in the gut' becomes 'wind' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'son' enclosing 'wind' is 'SWINDON'.
'in' is the link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for swindon that I've seen before include "Large Wiltshire railway town" , "22 [WILTS] town" , "English town" .)