diff --git a/docs/topics/request-response.rst b/docs/topics/request-response.rst
index 3d110b02d..67f8ec285 100644
--- a/docs/topics/request-response.rst
+++ b/docs/topics/request-response.rst
@@ -307,6 +307,7 @@ Those are:
 * :reqmeta:`proxy`
 * ``ftp_user`` (See :setting:`FTP_USER` for more info)
 * ``ftp_password`` (See :setting:`FTP_PASSWORD` for more info)
+* :reqmeta:`referrer_policy`
 
 .. reqmeta:: bindaddress
 
diff --git a/docs/topics/spider-middleware.rst b/docs/topics/spider-middleware.rst
index 0ddf027ea..a4ac45b41 100644
--- a/docs/topics/spider-middleware.rst
+++ b/docs/topics/spider-middleware.rst
@@ -337,6 +337,8 @@ REFERER_POLICY
 
 Default: ``'scrapy.spidermiddlewares.referer.DefaultReferrerPolicy'``
 
+.. reqmeta:: referrer_policy
+
 `Referrer Policy`_ to apply when populating Request "Referer" header.
 
 This setting accepts:
@@ -370,6 +372,11 @@ using ``file://`` or ``s3://`` scheme.
     ``same-origin`` may be a better choice if you want to remove referrer
     information for cross-domain requests.
 
+.. note::
+    You can also override the Referrer Policy per request,
+    using the special ``"referrer_policy"`` :ref:`Request.meta <topics-request-meta>` key,
+    with the same acceptable values as for the ``REFERER_POLICY`` setting.
+
 .. _Referrer Policy: https://www.w3.org/TR/referrer-policy
 .. _"no-referrer": https://www.w3.org/TR/referrer-policy/#referrer-policy-no-referrer
 .. _"no-referrer-when-downgrade": https://www.w3.org/TR/referrer-policy/#referrer-policy-no-referrer-when-downgrade